Elizabeth Warren thinks corruption is why the US hasn't acted on climate change

[DonViejo]

Here’s how she intends to fight greenhouse gases and money in politics.

By Umair Irfan Jun 22, 2019, 7:00am EDT

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has released not one, but three climate change plans as part of her campaign for president. So far.

Since April, she has outlined an agenda to counter growing greenhouse gas emissions and rising average temperatures through policies for public lands, the military, and US manufacturing. And more are in the works, according to her campaign.

Her piecemeal approach is distinct from the other Democratic candidates who’ve released climate proposals as a comprehensive bundle. Chief among them is Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who has made climate change the raison d’être for his run.

Warren, isn’t making climate change the centerpiece of her agenda nor placing it in a “environmental” silo. Instead, she is using different parts of her agenda address climate. She is making the policy case that climate change is a national security concern, an economic threat and opportunity, and the consequence of a violation of public trust.

That’s because Warren doesn’t see climate change itself as the central problem; rather the problem is money in politics. “The reason the United States is where it is on climate is corruption,” Chris Hayden, a spokesperson for the Warren campaign, told Vox. “We need to rein in the economic and political power of Big Oil to get serious about addressing climate change - which is why the first thing Elizabeth would do as President is pass her anti-corruption bill which would end lobbying as we know it.”

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[beachbum bob]

1. certainly not corruption is the sense of what corruption is any more than the horse and buggy people

fought the new fangle autos was corruption.

Its the changing of the guard.....when shareholders start raising hell with the corporate boards, then we might see some movement. The problem with capitalism and democracy is its messy

[marylandblue]

5. Shareholders have no influence over corporations,

they are routinely kept in the dark or ignored. Most shareholders who don't like the company's management just sell the stock. Other people who are okay with making money off of pollution, buy it.

Government is need3d to enforce rules on corporations for the public good. But as Warren points out, government can't do that if the politicians are beholden to the corporations they are supposed to regulate

[ancianita]

2. I'd vote for anyone who promises to end lobbying as we know it.

[gordianot]

3. Willful ignorance plays a role.

In the United States largely a Republican phenomina.

[NJCher]

4. I think she's absolutely right

Of course, that is because it supports my own opinion, LOL.

I have always seen us going backwards because entrenched interests keep us in their profit chain.
This is why it's dangerous to give enterprises like for-profit prisons and charter schools a toe hold in the economy.

[BeckyDem]

6. Correct. It is evident within Exxon Mobile Secrets.

The reasons they paid for false reports and muddled opinions was so they could keep making money without much change.

Warren 2020