Corporations
This US Supreme Court ruling recognized corporate campaign donations as a form of "free speech."
What is "Citizen's United"?
According to this document, "Francis [of Assisi] helps us to see that an integral ecology calls for openness to categories which transcend the language of mathematics and biology and take us to the heart of what it is to be human."
What is "Laudato Si'"?
The Washington Post reports that the Koch network contributed this much to 2016 political campaigns.
What is $ 900 million ?
This nation state has produced the bulk of climate science and some of the earliest warnings about global climate change
What is the United States?
What is laissez-faire?
Ghosh identifies this organization with the funding of climate change "denial," despite awareness of the consequences of carbon emissions
What is Exxon?
With this phrase, Ghosh demeans the personalization and moralization of individual acts carbon reduction
What is a "politics of sincerity"?
The particular school of political science that Koch foundations are most interested in funding goes by this name.
What is "Realism"?
16-year-old Greta Thunberg challenged world leaders at the New York City headquarters of this institution
What is the United Nations?
This economist stated that "by the working of natural laws individuals pursuing their own interests with enlightenment, in condition of freedom, always tend to promote the general interest at the same time!"
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
Amitav Ghosh references "climate skeptic Rupert Murdoch" because of his controlling role in this industry.
What is the media?
Ghosh identifies these two 2016 US Presidential candidates with an "ever-more-desperate yearning to recoup a genuinely participatory politics"
Who are Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump?
If you're boycotting the Koch Industries empire, you need to avoid the wood and paper produced under this brand.
What is Georgia-Pacific? (Paper products include Angelsoft, Brawny, Dixie, Mardi Gras, Quilted Northern, Soft n Gentle, Sparkle, Vanity Fair)
Ghosh identifies this institution with "some of the best and most detailed studies" of the security risks of global climate change.
What is/are US intelligence agencies?
What is the Department of Defense
Ghosh identifies this climate change response with "yet another neo-liberal frontier where corporations, entrepreneurs, and public officials will be able to join forces in enriching each other."
What is/are the Paris Accords?
In relation to responses again global climate change Ghosh derides this phenomenon
What is "the politics of self-definition"?
Perhaps the best known lobbying arm of the Koch Empire.
What is "Americans for Prosperity"?
The Global Climate Strike in September 2019 is estimated to have drawn participants in this many countries.
What is 185?
Most Americans would have to reduce carbon admissions by this percentage in order to realize parity with the global population average.
What is 80-90%?
By what logic are US corporations provided the protected Constitutional rights of a citizen?
This theologian and philosopher proposes that "a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates about the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor."
Who is Pope Francis?
Because of this governance status Koch Industries realizes certain benefits, including shelter from transparency and regulation.
What is "privately held"?
In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500.
While China is the world’s largest emitter in the apparel sector, what proportion of emissions might be re-assigned to the overseas companies where the products are exported and sold?
What is 72%?
(Source: Time Magazine)
Ghosh declines to "identify capitalism as as the principle fault line on the landscape of climate change," preferring instead to identify these historical processes.
What are the distributions of power that follow from empire and colonialism?