How did you spend your weekend? Probably not at super-secretive, high security meetings at a privately reserved resort complex in Laguna Beach.
But that’s exactly how the Kochs and a bunch of their wealthiest friends spent it. What were they discussing at said meetings? Why, how to spend $300 million of course.
And the Daily Beast reports that some of that $300 million will go behind a new anti-environment initiative that the Kochs are launching. The Kochs have long demonized the type of environmental regulations that keep our air safe to breathe, our water safe to drink, because they may also limit the massive oil profits of companies like Koch Industries. But evidently, with momentum growing around climate change action, the Kochs feel it’s time to take their crusade against environmental standards to new heights.
This is quintessential Koch. Concerned that climate change is becoming an important issue, the billionaire brothers hatch secret plans with their billionaire friends in high-security resort rooms to fight back. They will likely pour millions into advertisements to convince people that climate change isn’t a big deal (it is), or that any environmental standards will spell certain economic doom to working families (they won’t). But the truth is much simpler. These standards are inconvenient for the Koch brothers, who have made billions off their oil conglomerate with zero regard for damage they do to the environment.
Quite simply, the Kochs are more worried about their pockets than their planet, and they’ll stop at nothing to protect the former.