Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Richard Branson is so shocked by President Trump’s decision to withdraw from Paris, he’s putting his own money into renewables R&D. My question – isn’t this how Capitalism is supposed to work?
Richard Branson: Business leaders are ‘baffled’ by Trump on climate change
[British] billionaire Richard Branson said business leaders were left dumbfounded by President Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement. But if there’s a silver lining, it’s that companies are now even more driven to invest in clean energy and cut greenhouse gas emissions.
“Whether it’s GE, or whether it’s the big oil companies… I haven’t come across one business person who doesn’t want to get out there and do everything they can to try to compensate for the [Trump] administration’s very strange stance,” Branson said on a Wednesday call with reporters.
“A lot of people in the world are baffled by the American administration’s comments,” the Virgin Group CEO said.
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Read more: http://mashable.com/2017/06/21/richard-branson-business-leaders-trump-paris-agreement/
Does anyone need more evidence that President Trump’s decision to take government out of the energy business was a stroke of genius?
Before President Trump tore up the agreement, Branson and his friends were content to sit back and let US taxpayers take all the risks and pay all the bills.
Since President Trump tore up the Paris Agreement, Branson and his friends suddenly feel compelled to put their own money and time into funding high risk green energy R&D. Meanwhile, US tax money which would have likely been wasted on renewables can now be spent on stuff taxpayers actually care about, like retiring public debt, improving public healthcare or fixing broken US infrastructure.
Branson could raise the cash by selling his airline.
Of course, if anyone is unhappy their tax money is no longer being spent on green R&D, they are free to use their own cash to join Branson’s crusade to save the world. But people are also now free not to contribute to green R&D. Everyone gets to choose what happens to their own money.
Talk about win / win.
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Good for Branson, he has the key to making a small fortune in renewables — a large fortune to invest.
If investing in renewables was such a great idea and produced good profits, there would already be billions of private dollars invested there. But it ain’t so they won’t.
Mr. Branson translated; “Every CEO I spoke with is more than happy to suckle off of the taxpayer teet for countless billions while providing no useful good or service.”
Cheers!
Joe
Sounds to me like Dick is just upset that now he won’t be able to get his fare share of the US $100 Billion that Barry O promised every year.
Ah yes, Richard Branson…….Holier than Thou….being a billionaire does not make one suddenly a climate expert or more intelligent than the rest of us for that matter.The Bull Horn is larger, for sure.
With his personal carbon foot-print he should feel ashamed after preaching to the world and should donate all and I mean all his dough to the Climate Green Fund. Fun is over, no more Obama kite-flying behind a 500 HP speed boat. We may safely assume Branson wasn’t pulling the Big “O” behind a kayak.
More virtue signalling from a guy that has a carbon footprint bigger than any 100 of us.
Pardon me while I gag.
Between the two of them, their combined Carbon Footprint is larger than several small countries
SOMEBODY is going to make billions of dollars in “green” energy. Any bets if it will be before the year 2050, or 2100, or next century?
No doubt Branson, like all the other celebrity eco-phonies, will do his bit to cut emissions by greatly reducing his air travel.
“A lot of people in the world are baffled by the American administration’s comments,” the Virgin Group CEO said.
Sir Branson, a lot of Americans are baffled by your wedding dress. Your 1987 balloon crash might have damaged your brain
http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_720_noupscale/57a0f13f2a00000002fb43e5.jpeg
Useful idiots are blind indeed! Two things:
1) having all these billionaires spend their money on global warming instead of taxpayers doing so (we have to make sure this research isn’t a tax deductible expense – it violates government policy) also defeats the neomarxbrothers’ goal of destroying the economy, polity and power of the United States. The ideologgers won’t be pleased.
2) The irony and stupidity of elitists and warming scientists (97%) turning out to be wrong and not brought down by an Einstein but by Donald Trump and the “deplorables”, will cement the fate of the neomarxbrothers plans, chop Ngo activities and funding, will result in the massive overhaul of education, institutions, universities… , will bring in codes of ethics and science disciplinary panels (as for engineers)…
I covered Branson fairly thoroughly at
https://cliscep.com/2017/03/06/heat-the-rich-1-friendly-british-virgins-or-paradise/
Warning: there’s a photo of the green billionaire in his solid teak bath which is not for the faint-hearted.
Hey chris do some homework first so you don’t end up embarrassing yourself…
From the Business Insider: The origin of fracking actually dates back to the Civil War
Hey, if Branson wants to pander to 3rd world parasite I say go for it, he’s got the money… What floors me is that these fools think that we who know better should also be sucked into paying for that scam…
Paris Protocol Amounts to Massive Transfer of the Wealth of Nations
Rent-a-Fool is a new silicon valley startup. It’s offering deep discounts on their Branson fool product and Johnny Depp for a limited time.
Richard, I agree with the following:
Controlling the outside air temperature and ocean level of your private Pacific island beach with taxpayer dime would be one of those. I’m confident you to live up to your own words in your latest adventure:
http://www.joelannesley.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/richard-branson_Picture-Quote_Every-risk-is-worth-taking-as-long-as-its-for-a-good-cause-and-contributes-to-a-good-life.jpg
Take a chance. It’s the best way to test yourself. Have fun and push boundaries. It will work eventually:
Branson was ‘baffled’ that he had to pay tax early in his business career. Only the fact that his mother was friends with the county sheriff kept him out of jail, probably. The sum involved was £42,000, enough to buy several properties at the time. His initial business was a student magazine which made its money by advertising abortion clinics. Not a squeaky clean past.
Should we note his bio fuel flight experiment data was not a splashing success
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What is most important in this case?
Most importantly, Mr. Tramp realized that both science and politics had a curved network, as Einstein invented so much space time to prove what gravity was. To date, none of this, but the glutted science and now tries to dissuade the truth of natural laws and turn it into false theories in which it can earn good money on the ignorant peoples.
Such is the policy with “evidence” of the cause of climate change.
Every stupid man can moreover believe that climate change is a consequence of a human factor, but the interactions between the planet and the sun. This can be trusted by tycoons and ignorers who are “cows of a muzzle” for tycoons.
It is true that people pollute the atmosphere and that this should be prevented in many ways, and not that a person is stronger than nature. Only idiots believe this.
I call upon Branson to let us know what he knows about global warming that we don’t, and why is he playing ball with Al Gore, who has made so many statements about Global Warming, and that the end of the world is nigh in order to make $millions out of the scam, and all of which have been proven to be lies. Come on Richard, let’s hear from you.