For Chris Wright, there may be no simple truths. In it Confirmation of the Senate On January 15, the man is ready to take control of the US Department of Energy and his wide apparatus of technological research and developments sitting at a walnut table, a gray suit and a sharp tied red tie. Wright, founder and CEO of Liberty Energy, $ 3 billion on natural gas company, returned to her days as a solar -energy researcher and offered legislators a vision of openness and innovation. Climate change is an immediate problem, it reassured them, and it will solve it.
“This is a global question. This is a true issue. This is a difficult problem. And the climate change is the development of our energy system,” he said the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. “I am in favor of improving all energy technologies that can better live a person and reduce emissions.”
Since its confirmation of the Energy Secretary on February 3, Wright outlined the anti -class agenda. Speaking to the conservative audience, he is charismatic, animated and much more diligent. Wright rejected the transition to renewable energy sources as absent from the speech on February 18 at the conference “Alliance on Responsibility of Citizenship”, a meeting associated with the owner of the podcasman Jordan Peterson, and called global efforts to enhance the use of renewable sources, which he said. “
“The world is just working on hydrocarbons,” he said to the group, “and for most of their use we have no replacement. “
Before Congress, he promised to listen and study, and then make his course. Before Peterson’s group, he announced that he already had a “nine -point plan” that would be more than double the fuel consumption in the world that causes the planet to overheat. “The number one is to get out of the production, export and improvement of our coal, oil and gas,” he said. Yes, they cause climate change, it has repeatedly recognized, but this makes uncomfortable complications.
Over the past few weeks, Wright gave speeches not only at Peterson’s conference but also on Conference on Conservative Political Action and in CeraweekIt is widely considered as the most influential business event of the oil industry, during which it continued to claim that the global economy primarily depends on the expansion of hydrocarbons and that such alternatives as sunny and wind were expensive, and refusal – characteristics that ignore the rapid drop in costs and rapid adoption. “I think the agenda here may be different than climate change,” he mused on the forum Peterson, citing the “obsessed climate” with which he talked. Then he hit the topic he again emphasized in the following weeks: “It was definitely a powerful tool used to increase government power, control from top to bottom and reduction of human freedom. It’s ominous.”
As Wright’s views became more public, it suggests that he and the rest of the Trump’s office will take the preconditions for climatic changes, but degrading his threat, even creating the case that it is a benefit to society. The White House seeks to change the legal determination of carbon dioxide as a climatic pollutant and canceled evaluation of the rules regarding the economic costs for the extreme warming it leads. “I was recently called a climate or climate skeptic,” Ceraweek said. “It’s just wrong. I’m a climate -realist.”
“The Trump administration will consider climate change for what is, a global physical phenomenon that is a side effect of building the modern world,” he continued. Global life expectancy has increased. Poverty decreased dramatically. Modern medicine and telecommunications and planes have led. And in this process, “we really increased the CO2 Global Concentration by 50%”.
“Everything in life includes compromises,” he added. “Everything.”
Such a requirement that provides is more than a philosophical difference regarding the priorities of the world. The climate crisis that the vast majority of world scientists who warn will prove devastating. It gave some people he went to Congress. Senator Alex Podzil, Corrugation.
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In 2024, Liberty Energy published a small, 180-page manifesto called “Improve human life“Related to the similar poverty-named company, a company created this year to bring culinary fuels to Africa. The document consists of a lively moral argument for how the energy produced from oil and gas has put forward the developed world, and how much need to nurture the underdeveloped countries. Modern fuel, it is essential that it has the presence of cheap countries.
In his confirmation, the Senate Wright repeatedly asked to explain his arms “all sources” of energy. During one exchange, in which Senator Catherine Cortez Masta, Georgia, pushed him to expand what he meant, Wright listed them: wind, nuclear, geothermal, hydropower. “And if I didn’t say the sun, it was supervision.”
The statement is sharply contrasted with the fact that Wright told his investors to calls for the Liberty Energy Profit, where he accused many of these renewable sources in poverty growth and growth and criticized the “continuous repetition of just a false term”, citing “the so -called energy transition”. He claims that over the years and dollars are invested in the reduction of carbon and subsidized the transition to more pure energy, the hydrocarbons are still fueled by approximately 85% of the world energy proposal they have for decades. According to him, renewable energy sources are still less than 3%. (The rest is nuclear and hydroelectric energy, among other sources.)
According to the Energy Institute “A statistical review of the world energy“The trained source of energy industry for global market trends, however, hydrocarbons have fallen to 81.5% of the world’s energy consumption, and the renewable energy sources are approximately 8% of global energy use – more than twice as much as Wright – and allegedly increasing electricity production.
Wright, whose office did not answer a detailed list of questions, said he reject similar calculations for methodological reasons.
It also ignores the ways in which energy transition to the US is already going well. According to the US Energy Information Administration, the government’s main energy, wind and solar energy service is responsible for the significant growth of American electricity production, while the generation from natural gas is forecast. For example, South Dakota receives 80% of its electricity from renewable energy, and Vermont relies on them by almost 100%.
Facts in Baku, Wright, in their recent statements, began to submit their agenda ideological, drawing a direct border between the use of fossil fuel and conservative fears that the freedom of Americans is attacked. In the CPAC, released from the tie, he said he was forced to wear from the moment of his confirmation, strolling the brightly lit scene with his hands outstretched, he overcame oil and gas not as a cause of climate change, but as a fuel that is patriotic and moral. “Not all in the world have access to freedom and energy we have,” he told the audience. “But in our own country, both of these concepts were under great threat in the last four years. Perhaps that’s why my political career has begun. Freedom under threat, energy resources.”
This was a completely different message from the fact that Wright was delivered to the Senate.
Amy Westervelt from the drilled investment.
