As gas
prices were dropping during the fall of 2014 throughout the U.S., sales of SUVs
were picking up. That such drivers might find themselves with gas-guzzlers and
high prices was apparently out of sight, out of mind. Moreover, that the
increased carbon emissions might push the planet further from the habitable
zone for humans was a point entirely missing from the mainstream media as well
as office-holders. To the extent that some “socially responsible” investors
selling off their holdings in or related to fossil-fuel companies was generally
deemed to be a suitable approach to global warming, the overriding question may
be how a species could treat its own survival as if it were an after-thought
rather than a priority.
The full
essay is at “Divestment”