The Democrats’ Bold New Energy Platform: Zero Fossil Fuels

Bjarne Tellmann (General Counsel of Pearson PLC) recently reminded me of Simon Sinek’s TED Talk (“Start with Why”), which argues that “people don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” The Democrat’s energy platform opens with an emotional plea for why its energy policy is needed: “Cities from Miami to Baltimore are already threatened by rising seas. California and the West have suffered years of brutal drought. Alaska has been scorched by wildfire. New York has been battered by superstorms, and Texas swamped by flash floods. The best science tells us that without ambitious, immediate action across our economy to cut carbon pollution and other greenhouse gases, all of these impacts will be far worse in the future. We cannot leave our children a planet that has been profoundly damaged.”