Putin tootin’

We are seeing the opening phases of the actual top priority for the current administration.

Canceling the Clean Power Plan and gutting fuel economy standards and California emissions waivers are the first salvo in convincing fossil fuel investors that nothing will ever impact the value of their investments.

The fossil fuel oligarchs have been terrified that rational concerns would prevail, that much of their toxic resources (coal, oil) would have to be abandoned and left in the ground to avert climate catastrophe. This would result in a huge drop in their stock portfolios. Instead they can now keep up the illusion that climate change is “no big thing”, that costly (to them) emergency measures are not now (and never will be) required.

While this is terrible news for the planet and our grandchildren, it provides for rich returns to the evil oligarchs at the core of this conspiracy.

And Putin (who controls Russia’s oil and its oligarchs) is laughing all the way to the bank.