"One step forward, a zillion steps back, smile at the camera and you're doin' The Exxon-Mobil Jack".
Yessiree Bob, as I could have predicted*, the new boss of Exxon-Mobil has accepted that climate change is happening .
But (a) he says that worries about it are well and truly overblown and (b) he also says it will all be quickly,quietly, cheaply, efficiently engineered right back out of existence.
Rex Tillerson was expected to be a decisive change from the last CEO of Exxon-Mobil, the lanterned-jawed Lee Raymond.
But after he beat back a pitch from the Rockefeller family to have the Exxon gang spend a little more on alternative fuels, he confirmed he was at least the mettle of his former, ultra-combative, boss.
Tillerson is born in Wichita Falls Texas (not to be confused with Wichita Kansas, birther spawning grounds of the Denier Movement but close enough for most green people.)
He is an engineer, a Presbyterian and a Eagle Scout's sort of Eagle Scout.
He is a baby boomer, just a spot over 60 in age.
Postmodern in age, modernist in mindset.
On Wednesday ( June 27th 2012) he told the Council on Foreign Relations that climate change was an engineering problem with an engineering solution.
Keep on burning fossil fuel to help the poor move out of poverty, he pleads before the council in his best Al Jolson stance.
And when farms get dry and coasts get flooded as a result?
Move the poor out of those areas too.
Its all a matter of social engineering.
Great Howard Scott , Bat Boy : 1930s era "Technocracy Incorporated" lives !
To a hammer everything is a nail - to an engineer, there are no rights or wrongs - its all just engineering "problems" demanding engineering "solutions".
Final solutions .......
* er, as I did predict, just a few hours ago
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- Histories of WWII all start with the presumption that it was a war raged between humans and human ideologies, with Nature’s climate and geography as side issues easily surmounted.My blog, on the contrary will only accept that it was conflict between humans and their ideology that STARTED the war but that it was the barriers thrown up by Mother Nature (geography & climate) that turned it into a war that lasted between 6 to 15 years and expanded to thoroughly involve all the world’s oceans and continents. High Modernity may have started the war convinced that Nature had been conquered and was about to be soon replaced by human Synthetic Autarky and that only human Tiger tanks and human Typhoon planes were to be feared. But by the end, more and more people had lost their naive faith in Scientism and were beginning to accept that humanity was thoroughly entangled with both the Nature of plants, animals & microbes as well as the Nature of so called “lesser” humanity. By 1965, the world was definitely entering the Age of Entanglement. Billions still believed - at least in part -with the promises of High Modernity but intellectually & emotionally, it was no longer dominant...
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