Morgan, at “Inside the Movement,” writes: This year’s COP Conference has been hard to watch. Between the record number of oil lobbyists attending and the COP President (an oil CEO) who doesn’t believe phasing out fossil fuels will reduce global heating, we can’t lose sight of the urgency and action that is needed for our planet.
I remember attending a conference on alternative fuels whose keynote address was delivered by the president of the American Petroleum Institute. She pointed out that she was a soccer mom and needed a reliable way to get her kids to and from practices and games, as if only an internal combustion engine could deliver the dependability.
I found the organizer of the event and pointed out the absurdity, but he didn’t see the issue at all.
“If this represents the best of our capacity to think, conferences like these are really pointless, aren’t they?” I asked, as I turned and walked away.
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The fascism of the early 20th Century taught us all the key elements of the playbook (see below).
In particular, when a leader identifies an enemy like Islam as a grievous threat and pledges eliminate it, one might think that such a position would generate suspicion, rather than adoration.
No so here in the United States, where tens of millions of uneducated Americans would happily elect Trump an absolute leader for life, in the way of Putin and Xi.
In addition to all the sane, honest, and compassionate people in the U.S., I’m sure there are many Trump supporters who would agree.
Rich people may love the tax breaks, but very few of them want their kids to become criminal sociopaths.
https://www.2greenenergy.com/2026/05/20/raising-children/
There many be several explanations for this trend, but the most obvious is that the political right in the United States stands for lawlessness, i.e., the opposite of what law schools teach.
The Trump administration is essentially a criminal organization. You won’t find many intelligent and honest people, e.g., the professors and students in this setting, who support things like pardoning (and then rewarding) the thugs who stormed the Capitol and beat up law enforcement personnel.
https://www.2greenenergy.com/2026/05/20/law-schools-are-leaning-left-but-what-does-this-mean/
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