What you need to know about Rex Tillerson.
If Rex Tillerson is chosen as the Secretary of State in the USA, that will mean not a single woman or ethnic minority in any major position (President, Vice President, Chief of Staff, National Security Advisor, State, Treasury, Defence, Attorney General, Chief Strategist, CIA Director.) I also read somewhere he could be the first Secretary of State with no public sector experience. He is also very close to Russia and Putin. He has also given a lot of money to the Republican party over the years.
But even more important is that Rex Tillerson is CEO of Exxon Mobil, a fossil fuels company responsible for deliberately misleading the public in the US and UK and elsewhere about climate change by secretly setting up and funding think tanks to go on TV as independent experts and create the illusion of uncertainty in the debate, especially from 2003-2007.
Unlike some Republican senators and even Presidents that might have been fool enough back then to genuinely believe that human caused global warming was a hoax or greatly exaggerated, this was not possible if you're Rex Tillerson. Firstly, because you don't get to be CEO of a company that big if you're an idiot. He is probably a smart guy. Secondly, Exxon Mobil has been investigating climate change in huge depth for decades. When you've done that much research, as you inevitably will as a billion dollar company whose future depends on the answer, they knew many years ago.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/
In a recent stockholders meeting Tillerson laughed off the idea that they might make a tokenistic attempt to invest in a small amount of renewable energy, saying that they did not want to deliberately lose money. He is the ugliest face of free-market capitalism, and the strongest argument for green energy taxes on a much bigger scale. Rex Tillerson is the guy who has deliberately killed people so that he can have hundreds of millions of dollars personal fortune instead of tens of millions. Climate change already likely kills more than a hundred thousand people per year according to various studies and the emissions that we have already produced might extend that to millions in the future. Tillerson can easily be blamed for a chunk of that. And now this guy might get a seat at the table to negotiate international treaties.
And here's the kicker. If he really believes fossil fuels are good for the planet, why did he sue when someone tried to do fracking near his house, saying it would lower his proper values and damage the rural character of the area. Oops.
Almost all of Trump’s picks are terrible, but this one would be by far the worst. Donald Trump is just a naughty schoolboy compared to him.
