5 awards for the world’s most heinous climate villains
By Mike Roddy and Ian Murphy
11 December 2010
(AlterNet) – This was the hottest decade on record and 2010 has been the hottest year on record. Extreme weather and starvation are increasing on every continent, as beetles devour our forests and jellyfish begin to rule the sea. MIT and the Met Office Hadley Centre predict a business as usual 6 degree Celsius surface warming by 2100, and more than that over land. Climatologists call this being “screwed.”
Response from the oil and coal people? Bend over.
What follows is a list of people who just don’t get it, are handsomely rewarded not to get it, or both. [cf. 14 Most Heinous Climate Villains. –Des]
1. Evil Twin Awards: David and Charles Koch
Misdeeds: Even more evil than their father Fred, who founded the John Birch Society and railed against communist plots while profiting from the oil refineries he built for Stalin. Koch business operations include coal mining, stealing oil from Indian reservations, pipelines and refineries for Canadian Tar Sands oil, and formaldehyde soaked wood from clearcuts. Wherever there’s filth and destruction the boys are on it, like hound dogs rolling in bear shit. Between ’05 and ’08 alone, the Kochs spent $25 million spreading the ludicrous message that our best scientists are ideological fear mongers, who would use “climate change” to usher in World Government.
Corporate Teat: Koch Industries, with $100 billion annual income. Want some stock? Not for sale; it’s all theirs, baby.
Most Egregious Lie: “Since we can’t control Mother Nature, let’s figure out how to get along with her changes.” — a company newsletter.
Comeuppance: Locked in an underwater exhibit as part of a display at the Smithsonian’s $15 million David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, which whitewashes the dangers of climate change, to demonstrate how people will evolve to live in the rising oceans. [more]
