-
Recent Posts
- #CoolTheArctic presentation to ThirdAct! Vermont
- Humanity’s Urgent Moral Imperative: Returning the Planet to a Proven Safe State
- Follow-up email to California Governor Gavin Newsom’s COP26 delegation
- My email to California Governor Gavin Newsom’s COP26 delegation
- Tell World Leaders at COP26 to Unite Now On a Climate Restoration Action Plan!
Recent Comments
Letter to the Editor… on What’s the Least Bad Way… What’s the Least Bad… on What’s the Least Bad Way… Nancy Anderson on ExxonMobil Must Make a Respons… doug350 on Vermont Climate Action Commiss… Nancy Anderson on Vermont Climate Action Commiss… Archives
- October 2022
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- March 2020
- February 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
Categories
Meta
Letter to Rex 8/14/2012
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged climate, Eagle Scout, environment, Rex Tillerson. Bookmark the permalink.
Sadly, I suspect Tillerson will pay much more attention to the likes of anti-science propagandists like Cohen, Happer and Lindzen in the Wall Street Journal (14 August 2012). More on this on my blog tomorrow…
Thanks for your continued interest and feed back … I read Cohen, Happer and Lindzen … interrupted several times, and my thoughts gelled with finally completing listening to this four-part interview http://bit.ly/InsideExxon. I think Rex Tillerson is doing what is expected of him in the business as usual corporate paradigm. He is a cog on a wheel. But, he will have grandkids very soon, if not already. He just turned 60 and his sons are at the right age. I do believe that giving him a positive vision while the drumbeat outside gets more intense, louder and higher pitch with all that is going on this summer and whatever follows the election, he will eventually see that his support of a carbon fee will lead him to agree that production must decline as carbon-free energy technology ramps up. That is all I am asking him to do: acknowledge the inevitable and make a symbolic gesture that will get the ball rolling, announce a schedule that all refining concerns agree will do the least damage and allow the fastest retirement of the refining capacity. I have hope.
“all I am asking him to do [is] acknowledge the inevitable “…
Yes Doug. Exactly. Fossil fuels are history. They will run out one day; and people like Tillerson could have decided 20 years ago to re-invent their industry.
Sadly, as Bill McKibben points out, they are already trading on the profits from their future burning of fossil fuels, so I don’t see how we can stop them.
However, you are right, we must hope that we can.
Yup, the fundamental problem is that not burning all those reserves will have a significant impact on consumers and shareholders … very complicated, but I am beginning to believe that we collectively (consumers, shareholders, pension plans) will pay the piper — one way or another — for the dismantling and toxic clean up of the infrastructure that must be removed as the industry winds down. Somebody has to pay for the clean up, and if the corporation is forced to pay, the effect will trickle down to the shareholders, pension plans, consumers … and when they file bankruptcy or otherwise close the doors, who will be left to complete the unfinished clean up? Us. U.S. We the people. Stuff rolls downhill. Now or later, does not matter. It’s all the same. We can kick the can down the road, or we can reckon with it now.