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Related: About this forumPresident Obama is beginning to make climate-hawk noises
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For instance, during a discussion about the relationship between the White House and the business community, Obama, unprompted, segues into a discussion of denialism and carbon pricing.
Mr Obama: Well, I thinkheres whats interesting. Theres a huge gap between the professed values and visions of corporate CEOs and how their lobbyists operate in Washington. And Ive said this to various CEOs. When they come and they have lunch with mewhich they do more often than they probably care to admit (laughter)and theyll say, you know what, we really care about the environment, and we really care about education, and we really care about getting immigration reform donethen my challenge to them consistently is, is your lobbyist working as hard on those issues as he or she is on preserving that tax break that youve got? And if the answer is no, then you dont care about it as much as you say.
Now, to their credit, I think on an issue like immigration reform, for example, companies did step up. And what theyre discovering is the problem is not the regulatory zealotry of the Obama administration; what theyre discovering is the dysfunction of a Republican Party that knows we need immigration reform, knows that it would actually be good for its long-term prospects, but is captive to the nativist elements in its party.
And the same I think goes for a whole range of other issues like climate change, for example. There arent any corporate CEOs that you talk to at least outside of maybeno, I will include CEOs of the fossil-fuel industrieswho are still denying that climate change is a factor. What they want is some certainty around the regulations so that they can start planning. Given the capital investments that they have to make, theyre looking at 20-, 30-year investments. Theyve got to know now are we pricing carbon? Are we serious about this? But none of them are engaging in some of the nonsense that youre hearing out of the climate-change denialists. Denialists?
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President Obama is beginning to make climate-hawk noises (Original Post)
xchrom
Aug 2014
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dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)1. If the Pres. is indeed having the type of conversations he describes
then tis a good thing.
His style has seemed to be more conciliatory than confrontational. I hope it is having an impact on anyone willing to seriously listen to him.
Nihil
(13,508 posts)2. Gosh he sounds like that guy from a few years ago, what was his name? ...
... Oh that's it: "Candidate Obama"!
I wondered what had happened to him ...