THE MORNING RANT: Woke vs Woke Showdown Involving Chevron CEO; Other Green Follies

Like the CEOs of most major corporations, Chevron’s CEO Mike Wirth has embraced left-wing activism and imposed a divisive, sexist, and racist diversity agenda on the company. Whether he is a left-wing true believer, or simply a cultural greenwasher who believes that hating on his straight, white employees makes his carbon-based $26 million compensation package seem less offensive, I don’t know for sure. But I do know that Wirth loves to go out and promote the left-wing talking points.

Unfortunately for Wirth, while he was attending a forum about ”Harnessing the Power of Engaged Men in the Pursuit of Gender-Inclusive Workspaces” some of his co-leftists stormed the stage and verbally assaulted Wirth for not putting Chevron out of business as fast their net-zero religion demands.

These left-wing radicals are on CEO Wirth’s political team. He has chosen to embrace the radical left and push their cultural-communist agenda on his employees. It is not my position to dispute the claims made against him by his political allies. If his own political friends claim he is a leech and a women-of-color killer, it’s not my place to dispute that.

My natural allegiance should obviously be with an oil company executive when he is faced with communist civil disobedience. But so long as Mike Wirth and other left-wing CEOs advocate for an agenda that vilifies me and sacrifices my liberty to the communists’ anti-civilizational agenda, I can only laugh when the crocodile he has embraced decides to attack him.

Others who’ve had careers in the military have done a much better job than I can of covering the subject of how wokeness is undermining our military and its ability to fight and win a war. But I do understand how woefully limited and incapable almost any “green” product is compared to what it replaces. All the talk of electric fighting machines is coming from people whose only objective is eliminating petroleum products, not winning military battles.

And then there is this…

“Rodents incapacitate millions in eco-friendly military equipment in Ukraine: the unforeseen problem” [MSN – ESSA News]

Weaponry systems in Ukraine, many of which were supplied by European countries, have been rendered unworkable, not due to Russian interference, but because of damage caused by mice and other rodents. Seemingly, these creatures have developed a preference for cable insulation made of corn fiber over synthetic materials. This predilection leads to malfunctioning electrical installations, rendering the expensive equipment essentially worthless, and requiring rapid overhauling.

When munition designs are based on their compostability rather than their durability and lethality, then military defeat is inevitable.

I’m not sure what is scarier right now in New York, the crime or the lithium battery fires…

“NYC journalist's death is city's latest lithium-ion battery fire fatality, officials say” [USA Today – 02/26/2024]

Friends and colleagues are mourning a New York journalist who died in what authorities say is the city's latest deadly fire sparked by a micromobility device's lithium-ion battery.

“Deadly Harlem fire that killed 1, injured 18 caused by lithium-ion battery: FDNY” [Pix – 02/20/2024]

A deadly fire that killed one person and injured 18 others in Harlem on Friday afternoon was caused by a lithium-ion battery, according to a tweet by the FDNY. “FDNY Fire Marshals have determined that Friday’s devastating fire at 2 St. Nicholas Place in Manhattan was caused by a lithium-ion battery,” the tweet read. “The fire claimed the life of one person and injured 17 others.”

“Lithium-ion battery fire displaces dozens of Marble Hill residents” [ CBS News – 3/12/2024]

Lithium-ion batteries were to blame for another fast-moving fire in New York City that injured several people in the Marble Hill neighborhood, FDNY officials confirmed Tuesday. At least 10 people, including six firefighters, were injured when the flames broke out Monday afternoon on Marble Hill Avenue and West 225th Street. The damages left more than two dozen displaced.

Of course, the problem isn’t restricted to New York City, the problem is lithium batteries. These dangerous fires are occurring all over the place.

Two killed in New South Wales house blaze believed to be state's first recorded lithium-ion battery-related deaths, Fire and Rescue NSW says” [ABC Australia – 3/04/2024]

“Warehouse storing lithium batteries goes up in flames in France amid growing fears over their dangers” [Daily Mail 02/18/2024]

“Porsche EV battery blamed for ship fire in Mitsui O.S.K. lawsuit” [Nikkei Asia – 3/07/2024]

“Growing safety concerns over lithium-ion batteries after four fires in one day in New South Wales” [The Guardian – 3/15/2024]

“Woodbury Fire Dept.: Lithium-ion batteries to blame for 5 house fires in past 4 months” [CBS – 02/16/2024]

“Lithium-ion batteries caused more than 1,000 fires during the past year in Australia” [ABC Australia – 3/13/2024]

If lithium batteries weren’t propelling the sacred transportation devices of the left, there would be recalls and product safety investigations.

Wind energy produces zero kw of reliable electricity. Despite all the cost and environmental degradation caused by wind turbines, they produce no electricity when they wind doesn’t blow, so there must always be a reliable backup source of nuclear or carbon-based electricity.

This video below just breaks my heart, but it needs to be watched. A large, majestic bird soaring through the sky is clipped by a wind turbine blade and falls to the ground, where it flops until it dies.

If one sage grouse were killed at an oil drilling site, there would fines, investigations, and possibly criminal penalties against the drilling company. But millions of birds - including magnificent raptors with limited populations - are killed each year by wind turbines, all to produce not a single kw of reliable electricity.

In my latest piece at The Pipeline (’Climate’ Propaganda Masquerading as ‘Journalism’) I take a deep dive into an eco-communist organization named “Covering Climate Now” which has teamed with hundreds of media organizations to promote climate catastrophism and to “train” journalists on how to suppress and censor voices which dissent from climate orthodoxy.

I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.

(h/t to K.T. for the header photo.)

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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