Newsweek - Climate Pact Pullout Rewards the Few and Powerful

[TomCADem]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/climate-pact-pullout-rewards-the-few-and-powerful/ar-BBBNixu?li=BBnb7Kz

They came from Exxon, Apple, Unilever. Titans of industry. They begged. They pleaded. They cajoled and threatened: Elon Musk said he would quit advising the president. As late as Wednesday night, Ivanka and Jared’s friends were still laying out a Hail Mary pass scenario in which the president would stay in the Paris climate pact at the last minute, and give all the credit for persuasion to the first son-in-law, thereby perhaps placating the investigatory hounds from hell on the young man’s trail.

In the end, the titan’s pleas, Ivanka and Jared’s social future in Manhattan and the future of the planet mattered far, far less than Trump’s base. His real base. Not the coal miners or oil drilling roughnecks or even the evangelicals, who think if the world is melting, well, God Will Sort It Out.

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What the Great Paris Pullout actually reveals is Trump’s true base. They are known colloquially as “The Yacht People,” and they are very unlike the men and women who show up at Trump rallies. They don the red hat only for laughs.

Billionaires like Carl Icahn and the Koch Brothers (who supposedly loathe Trump but are getting exactly what they have been working at for decades) and their Russian oligarch analogs can’t wait for the administration to gut climate and pollution regulations at home and abandon international sanctions abroad so they can get back to the business of drilling and selling crude oil and other fossil fuels unfettered by the “losers” in the bureaucracy.

[JI7]

1. ivanka and jared don't care about the issue. for them it's more about fitting in among a certain

crowd. and of course their businesses .

young women who are likely to be more pro environment will not buy her crap.

[dalton99a]

2. Once again, follow the money

[pbmus]

3. As Warren Buffet said we are winning and the American people are losing..

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We are presently being governed by the kkk

Kleptocratic kakistrophic klusterf...

[stevenleser]

4. And even many of the few and powerful are too smart to think this is a good thing.

Elon Musk and Bob Iger are a case in point.

Many of the country's CEO's have implemented Green policies at their businesses to try to combat climate change.

[Lucinda]

5. KNR

[Lyricalinklines]

6. Pretty soon we'll hear of bills being passed for taxpayer money used to build oil refineries.

That's what they want. They don't want to spend their own money updating/building anew. They lobbied for special protection of money, tax free shelters. They've used those special protections as weapons on the American voters/tax payers. They've used their bank accounts to hold hostage American growth at the expense of the American economy. Now they're getting what they've wanted for decades. And by the hands, albeit tiny, of a man they can't stand and didn't support. Wonder if the religious conservatives and racists far reaching are looking in their bibles to see any correlations there.