{"id":51372,"date":"2021-10-06T22:11:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T22:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/humboldt\/?p=51372"},"modified":"2024-10-10T22:11:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T22:11:50","slug":"bill-mckibben-speaks-october-7-4pm-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/humboldt\/bill-mckibben-speaks-october-7-4pm-reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill McKibben Speaks October 7, 4pm REMINDER"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill McKibben, one of the founders of 350.org and one of the most perceptive climate journalists we have, will be speaking Thursday at 4:00 pm at a Schatz Energy-sponsored webinar.<\/p>\n

His talk is on “What can we still do.”<\/p>\n

350 Humboldt hopes you will be able to attend.<\/p>\n

Details and registration are HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here is his most recent column on Joe Manchin. <\/strong><\/div>\n

First, let\u2019s be clear about one thing: Joe Manchin does not care about West Virginia\u2019s coal miners. He obviously possesses sufficient leverage in the ongoing Capitol Hill negotiations that, if he wanted to, he could insure that the state\u2019s remaining 15,000 coal miners all got yachts<\/a> like his. He could make sure that every coal community in the state had health clinics, libraries, swimming pools, vocational high schools, community college branches. Hell, at this point Joe Biden would happily consent to plumbing the Monangahela River so that it ran as whiskey three hours a day and Coca-Cola on weekends.<\/p>\n

But Joe Manchin is actually doing the work of the fossil fuel industry, which has given him more money than any other person in Washington (no easy feat, considering the scale of their largesse). That became indisputably clear yesterday when Politico obtained the memo<\/a> he\u2019d given Majority Leader Schumer over the summer, stipulating his Scrooge-ish conditions for doing anything about the climate crisis and all the other crises besetting America.<\/p>\n

With regard to energy, he made one basic demand, which follow the industry\u2019s line to a T. And it only took five words: \u201cSpending on innovation, not elimination<\/em>.\u201d In other words: it is permissible to spend money on solar panels, windmills and so on, as long as none of it is aimed at actually reducing the amount of oil and gas we pump. As he put it, all policy had to be \u201cfuel neutral.\u201d He said, explicitly, if you\u2019re going to give tax credits for clean and energy, you have to continue the tax subsidies for fossil fuels. Any credits for electric cars must also go to hydrogen-powered cars\u2014because using natural gas to create hydrogen is one of the industry\u2019s Rube Goldberg schemes for holding on to its business model.<\/p>\n

This is nothing more than the \u201call of the above\u201d energy strategy of the Obama years, and given how much more we now know both about the economics of clean energy (incredibly cheap) and the dangers of rapid climate change (incredibly existential), it\u2019s disgusting. The Biden administration was trying to break with that model and move toward the clean energy world that both physics and finance demand\u2014but the fossil fuel industry won\u2019t let it, and Manchin is their hostage-taker.<\/p>\n

Whatever deal emerges today will be judged on one thing (and the judging will be done not just here, but in every other capitol around the world): whether or not it allows us to meet Biden\u2019s target of cutting emissions in half by 2030. If Manchin gets his way, that won\u2019t happen. Manchin came to power with an ad<\/a> showing him shooting climate regulations\u2014now he\u2019s holding a gun to the planet\u2019s head.<\/p>\n

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