From this: Engine manufacturer Cummins must pay the second largest environmental penalty in United States history: a whopping $1.6 billion to settle claims that it outfitted hundreds of thousands of trucks with software to defeat pollution controls.
Plug-In America co-founder Paul Scott writes: Jennifer Rumsey is the CEO of Cummins. She’s been a high level member of management for over a decade and was intimately involved in this scheme to defraud California regulators and presumedly those in other states. While I appreciate that her company has been fined $1.6 billion, it is also a fact that the consequences of her crime involve more human deaths from the added diesel pollution. Seems she should spend time in prison for that.
As I noted repeatedly during the (extremely similar) VW emissions scandal, corporate malfeasance, while it isn’t brand new, continues to escalate as time passes.
When I was working as a business consultant a few decades ago, principally to the Fortune 100 tech companies, no-one would have dreamed suggesting a conspiracy to defraud government regulators, cheat customers, and endanger the health of everyone on Earth. If someone had actually done so, he would have been fired immediately and escorted off the premise by security.
Times have changed, to put it kindly.
I see.
There’s not enough land in Spain to support rooftop and ground-mounted solar at a fraction of the cost.
LOL.
It’s possible that right now, there are other civilizations observing the human race, studying us from afar, and noticing our decline into savagery and eventual extinction by turning billionaires into trillionaires.
People say that the principal weakness of human beings is that we can’t plan for the future as a species. Dogs are arguably even worse, though they aren’t consumed with greed. They don’t plot the starvation of millions of other dogs so they themselves can have enough food to last a billion years.
As an elderly man, I’ll be leaving this planet soon, but I won’t cease pondering this until my heart stops beating.
The drawing here reminds me of a conversation I had with my mother in the early days of 2GreenEnergy when she saw that my focus had become an ongoing effort to improve the wellbeing of all the planet’s inhabitants–now and into the future.
She asked me, “Why don’t you just live your life?”
I explained, “This is my life.”
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