May. 25, 2022
May 25, 2022 Americans must be provided the information necessary to exercise their investment choices in a manner that will steer our future toward a healthy and habitable planet, not just the immediate financial returnsthat the capital market recognizes and rewards. The continued profitability of fossil fuel companies is incompatible with a habitable Planet Earth, and any entity or person or entity that invests in coal, oil, or gas companies is therefore placing a financial wager upon the destruction of Planet Earth. Such grossly immoral behavior by a company is incompatible with the values of many of their would-be shareholders, were this information generally available. The first and foremost interest of all human beings is in a habitable planet, without which no amount of money is relevant. The pathetically cramped notion of investors as concerned only with quantifiable monetary returns is a denial of their full humanity, and the panoply of other values that may be adversely impacted by the behavior of the companies in which they invest.