This election season has created an unprecedented alliance between the environmental Left and the anti-free market movement. The result is a well-funded juggernaut adept at conducting coordinated and sophisticated assaults on American businesses while attempting to influence crucial elections. Their goals are nothing short of shuttering our American manufacturing industry, halting the production of affordable energy and placing a ruling clique of radicals in office.
One such tactic focuses on intimidating universities and other institutions into divesting their financial holdings of fossil fuel investments. Activists behind this campaign talk candidly about how they hope to “revoke the social license” of energy companies and turn them into “pariahs.” Thanks to robust energy production and a free-market economy, the divestment campaign has achieved mixed success. Just recently Stanford University announced it will retain its investments in fossil fuel stocks – much to dismay of billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer who was left red-faced by his alma matter’s announcement. Stanford’s decision to ignore environmentalist rants is the latest rejection by a number of prestigious universities that have decided to keep their coal, oil and natural gas investment assets.
This ultra-liberal alliance is also boldly trying to prosecute their political opponents who hold dissenting views on climate change. More than a dozen Democratic attorneys general and former Vice President Al Gore recently held a press conference announcing a multistate investigation of ExxonMobil, alleging some cockamamie cover-up of climate data. What is now known is that beforehand, two environmental activists had made a secret, closed-door presentation on “climate change litigation” to state prosecutors by invitation of the New York attorney general’s office.
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