The Sustainable Organic Church Of The Carbon Apocalypse

[That is coblogger Buck Throckmorton's brilliant name for it]

These people are loons!

The majority of Americans are suspicious of the entire teetering edifice of Global Warming^TM hysteria, so the fact that United Airlines is doubling down on this insanity is telling. My guess is that it goes hand-in-hand with DEI and other progressive tools, because that's how leftist corporations roll, and UAL is definitely a leftist company.

But this particular grift is slick. UAL isn't asking for donations to fund some green project in Sh*tcanistan or deepest darkest Africa. No, they are asking for money to help defray the costs of their own initiatives! They are not content to fund it with their own money, because that runs the risk of getting slapped down by their board of directors and the financial markets. So they go directly to their customers with this weird, touchy-feely begging. It's a mission! An initiative! It's for sustainability!

The buzz-words are great, although a bit dated. They will have to come up with some new ones to continue the grift into President Trump's term, because they will be conspicuously on the outside looking in.

Too bad they don't spend some of their AGW money on maintaining and cleaning their planes. I fly UAL a lot, and they do the bare minimum. Plus, the food sucks! Although their house bourbon is Buffalo Trace, which is a pleasant pour, so I guess it could be worse.

It is long past time for the boards of directors of major corporations in America to force the issue, and make their CEOs return to the appropriate goals of every public company: enhancing shareholder value is not something that has become passé. And even worse; rent-seeking behavior in pursuit of transient government funding to support these green initiatives is a recipe for disaster. Governments change! Priorities change! But the pursuit of profit will never go out of style.

posted by CBD at 12:00 PM

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