Shitstain's Energy Secy At Jordan Peterson's Climate Liars' Confab - UK Net-Zero "A Sinister Goal", Need More Coal

[hatrack]

Donald Trump’s new energy secretary has today vowed to “get out of the way” of coal, oil and gas, and called the UK’s 2050 net zero target “a sinister goal” that would “impoverish” people. Chris Wright, an oil and gas industry executive appointed by U.S. President Trump, was speaking via video link at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London, a right-wing forum run by fierce opponents of climate policies.

He also downplayed the threat from extreme weather, and suggested that climate action is part of a plot to “grow government power” and “shrink human freedom”. The ARC conference, taking place this week at the ExCel centre in east London, includes speeches by Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch, Republican Party Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, and Canadian psychologist and ARC founder Jordan Peterson.

As DeSmog revealed on Monday, a leaked guest list for the event includes executives from oil and gas giants, including BP, Koch Inc., Valero Energy, and Energy Transfer. Until his appointment, Wright was the CEO of the fracking services company Liberty Energy. According to its 2023 tax filing, Wright was also a director of the Western Energy Alliance (WEA), a trade group representing more than 300 companies in the oil and gas industry. WEA has historically lobbied against oil and gas industry restrictions.

EDIT

Wright told the ARC audience today that he wanted to “increase the supply of affordable, reliable energy” by lifting the pause on natural gas and scrapping regulations on nuclear energy. When asked about coal, oil and gas, he said: “Oh absolutely. The world today runs on coal oil and gas, and it’s been a tremendous success. I should have said number one [of his plan] is get out of the way of the production, export and enhancement of our volumes of coal, oil and gas.”

EDIT

https://www.desmog.com/2025/02/17/u-s-energy-secretary-chris-wright-backs-coal-and-attacks-sinister-climate-targets-at-arc-conference/

[CousinIT]

1. That whole "climate change is a plot for guvmint to control us!" has been a GOP/MAGA excuse since

The 1970s, when Nixon created the EPA.

That has been their go-to whine: "All that environmental stuff - that's just the guvmint trynna find excuses to control us!"

Ignorance is going to destroy humanity. I can't with these fucking people anymore.