That probably explains the kind of money involved in raising $100 million for the Bush library. Then again, better they waste their money there than infect our government. Sally forth with your library devoted to a champion of the devaluation of knowledge!
[heh, I wrote this post for the Chevron pollution scandal covered up by Powerline's "Conservative Journalism", but it's appropriately reposted here]
Corporate accountability?
See: Exxon/tobacco corporation anti-science FUD.
Beyond the tobacco corporations blowing smoke in the American public’s faces for decades by selling addictive killer drugs to children, Exxon has used the Fear/Uncertainty/Doubt/ misinformation principles honed by tobacco corporation liar lobbyists to push back serious climate change solutions for decades.
The consequences? Well, beyond the predictable millions and millions that live along coast lines losing their homes as the oceans slowly rise, there’s that little thing about the glaciers that supply vast amounts of earths drinkable river water drying up.
What does that mean? During summer months rivers will dry up because the glacial melts aren’t replenishing them. This is now a global phenomenon.
Reality denying, anti-science right wingers have been obstructing addressing global climate change realities every step of the way.
First the Exxon anti-science brigade claimed climate change wasn’t happening (some right wing holdouts are still denying observable reality).
Next, when the reality became undeniable for anyone who wanted to be taken seriously, the Exxon anti-science brigade claimed it wasn’t that dire. But that’s been shown to be a lie.
Then the reality denying Exxon and their reality denying right wing anti-science brigade claimed there was nothing that could be done about climate change, which was always nonsense.
Now the anti-science brigade is claiming that it would be too expensive and that gambling the planets climate system is just gonna happen. Still nonsense.
There are even coal companies that are trumpeting magic non-existent technology will save US, but they aren’t spending even a dime on researching the non-existent and dubious technological ‘fixes.’
They ARE however spending a lot of money on their corporate lie machine.
And the corporate media is being typically subservient to the Exxon/coal/oil/shale corporate interests.
Watch right wing climate denier George Will embarrass himself both in print and on the TV every week on mislabeled ‘liberal’ outlets.
The right wing: ready to gamble the climate for their short sighted sociopathic greed, all enabled by your friendly right wing corporate media outlet that the right wing Orwellianly mislabeled “liberal.”