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David Koch is dead. He was the less involved brother, and he had already retired.
Found this very interesting article about the Koch brothers hosting a climate change denial conference in 1991.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily...ence-it-bought
First, the Koch brothers themselves created an echo chamber to pile misinformation on top of more misinformation and change the narrative from one of science into one of political partisanship. Mission accomplished there. The conference itself was called “Global Environmental Crisis: Science or Politics?”
Oh, I also love the bit about Third Way in there. Big Elizabeth Warren backers this cycle.
Found this very interesting article about the Koch brothers hosting a climate change denial conference in 1991.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily...ence-it-bought
"Kochland” is important, Davies said, because it makes it clear that “you’d have a carbon tax, or something better, today, if not for the Kochs. They stopped anything from happening back when there was still time.” The book also documents how, in 2010, the company’s lobbyists spent gobs of cash and swarmed Congress as part of a multi-pronged effort to kill the first, and so far the last, serious effort to place a price on carbon pollution—the proposed “cap and trade” bill. Magnifying the Kochs’ power was their network of allied donors, anonymously funded shell groups, think tanks, academic centers, and nonprofit advocacy groups, which Koch insiders referred to as their “echo chamber.” Leonard also reports that the centrist think tank Third Way quietly worked with the Kochs to push back against efforts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, which could have affected their business importing oil from Canada. Frequently, and by design, the Koch brothers’ involvement was all but invisible.
Oh, I also love the bit about Third Way in there. Big Elizabeth Warren backers this cycle.
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