While other oil firms are exploring alternatives to petroleum Exxon sticks to a single business practice and funds global warming deniers.
My favorite quote:
"There are an awful lot of people who are getting increasingly annoyed with Exxon," said economist Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, a great-granddaughter of the company's founder. "Their [Exxon's] attitude is 'these pesky shareholders, they act as if they own the company'."
The real truth was revealed in this comment, stockholders may "own" a company but they don't control it. This is the breakdown in the capitalist system that nobody talks about.
Here's a link to one version of the story:
Myopic ExxonMobil is ignoring the planet's future, say Rockefellers Policies not Politics ---- Daily Landscape
...stockholders may "own" a company but they don't control it. This is the breakdown in the capitalist system that nobody talks about.
Bingo!
She was an early adopter of renewable energy technologies, supported our earliest wind energy efforts (in the mid-70's!), and was generally a rebel. She was living with a passive solar architect from someplace Scaninavian. I remember being scared to death watching from our motel window, after we'd shared a bowl or two, as her minders sat in their car out on the street (at least in my mind).
One of my chief mentors in early windpower, Paul Montagu Sturges, a classmate of David's at Harvard, thought the Rockefellers were the greatest danger to future civilization. He considered it a great coup when we installed a Clivus Multrum on our passive house by a mountain stream where we couldn't get permits for a waste system, but with the Clivus we got it built. Paul and Abby invited Pete Seeger to sing at the opening, sound system set up on the rocks surrounding the stream.
I haven't spoken with Abby over the years, but i'd bet she's still fighting. And she's a daughter, not a granddaughter, so she's even closer to her father and his policies.
Abby, if you're out there, let's make a ceremony for old times sake, and perhaps the future. Bet you'd be proud of what i've done. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Dunno about Abby, but her son organised the gig I attended in Seattle a couple of weeks ago.
Really nice guy. He said she's always been the black sheep of the family... "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
Elite marathon runners are especially pernicious.
