Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill
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Re: Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill
#2This article, per usual, is creating a completely false narrative. Just by opposing a particular bill that is ostensibly aimed at controlling the climate does not mean you are opposed to all actions aligned with that bills outward goals.
Re: Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill
#3Before blaming them, we should ask why they are against it.
“provide payments to prop up carbon-free nuclear energy”
I would be also against a bill that includes this.
Re: Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill
#4This article, per usual, is creating a completely false narrative. Just by opposing a particular bill that is ostensibly aimed at controlling the climate does not mean you are opposed to all actions aligned with that bills outward goals.
Not just that, but the article doesn't even mention until halfway in that this bill is a 3.5TN budget bill, very much full of other non-climate proposals. Most people will read and comment on the title.
Re: Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill
#5Ah. The good old “let’s name the law something inopposable so anybody against it will generate clickbait headlines”.
Re: Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill
#6The Build Back Better bill (or reconciliation bill) is the only real climate legislation that will plausibly be signed into law in the United States in the 2020s. It offers a meaningful path forward for the US to curb its carbon emissions.
Opposing it means you oppose doing anything about mitigating the climate crisis within the United States from a federal legislative perspective within a timeframe where we can reasonably imagine stopping temperatures from increasing past 1.5° or 2.0°C.
It is revenue neutral and paid for by increasing taxes on the richest Americans and corporations. That’s why Apple and Disney are opposed to it. Notably, their tax liabilities will still be lower than they were in 2017.
Re: Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill
#7The Build Back Better bill (or reconciliation bill) is the only real climate legislation that will plausibly be signed into law in the United States in the 2020s. It offers a meaningful path forward for the US to curb its carbon emissions. Opposing it means you oppose doing anything about mitigating the climate crisis within the United States from a federal legislative perspective within a timeframe where we can reas…
So its not revenue neutral.
Re: Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill
#8The Build Back Better bill (or reconciliation bill) is the only real climate legislation that will plausibly be signed into law in the United States in the 2020s. It offers a meaningful path forward for the US to curb its carbon emissions. Opposing it means you oppose doing anything about mitigating the climate crisis within the United States from a federal legislative perspective within a timeframe where we can reas…
We don’t know if the bill is revenue neutral because we haven’t seen the final version yet.
Re: Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill
#9This article, per usual, is creating a completely false narrative. Just by opposing a particular bill that is ostensibly aimed at controlling the climate does not mean you are opposed to all actions aligned with that bills outward goals.
Not just that, but the article doesn't even mention until halfway in that this bill is a 3.5TN budget bill, very much full of other non-climate proposals. Most people will read and comment on the title.
This has to be one of the most reprehensible pieces of flat-out propaganda I’ve seen from The Guardian.
Re: Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill
#10Before blaming them, we should ask why they are against it. “provide payments to prop up carbon-free nuclear energy” I would be also against a bill that includes this.
Are you against carbon-free nuclear energy, or against payments propping such energy up?