“Over the past two months, [I’ve had] close to 50 conversations with people working in corporate sustainability and ESG functions…. ‘It’s a bullshit job,’ ‘I’m the green fig leaf,’ and ‘We’re doing what we can, but no one in leadership truly cares’ are recurring statements, repeated again and again in various forms.” – Julia Vol (below)
Julia Vol last month wrote on the business social media platform LinkedIn:
OK, it’s crazy. Ever since I became outspoken about leaving corporate sustainability because I felt my work had no real impact on moving the needle toward actual sustainability, I’ve been inundated with messages from across industries and geographies telling me how much my message resonated with them.
She continued:
… Continue ReadingOver the past two months, those messages sparked close to 50 conversations with people working in corporate sustainability and ESG functions.
“Climate hypochondriacs deserve to be treated with compassion, much like anyone who suffers from mental illness. They shouldn’t, however, expect everyone else to enable their neuroses.” – Allysia Finley, Wall Street Journal
The futile, wasteful climate crusade has created collateral damage for the cause of the Progressive Left. Their political weapon against ordinary living in a free society has run afoul of ordinary folk, consumer and taxpayer all. And with the government lucre running low or out, and the political forces aligned against them, there is fear, even panic, that their cause is hopeless and unconvincing. “Open for work,” hundreds of climate activists have circled around their names on the business site, LinkedIn.
When the climate movement was at its peak in mid-2022, the faithful knew they were winning political battles but losing the war against carbon dioxide (CO2).…
Continue Reading“On the 15th anniversary of the BP blowout, the real takeaway is that oil companies that think they are ‘beyond petroleum’ are value destroyers for shareholders and for the environment.”
Every April commemorates BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill (April 2010). To the anti-energy Left, Deepwater Horizon is the epitome of oil-gone-bad, coming some 21 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. It was not supposed to happen again, but ….
The sad facts of Deepwater Horizon will forever remain; the multiple failures behind the seafloor accident meticulously documented. But a paradox remains. Mighty BP, captained by John Browne, the leading “environmentalist” of the petroleum industry, created a corporate culture that resulted in lax safety and environmental protocols. By saving about $5 million out of $100+ million in drilling costs, the company ended up paying out in excess of $60 billion.…
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