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How the Koch Network's ‘Social Change' Strategy Is Built to Kill the Electric Car

DeSmogBlog

In a revelatory article, published in Philanthropy Magazine in 1996 , an executive vice president of Koch Industries named Richard Fink laid out a three-tiered integrated strategy for promoting libertarian ideals and free-market principles, and, in doing so, protecting the Kochs’ sprawling petrochemical refining and shipping businesses. .

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How investing 1.3 per cent of GDP could decarbonise the global economy - and unlock massive financial savings

Business Green

Moreover, this price tag is for capital investments, not costs. But this equates to an average annual level of $3.5tr and the roll out of clean technologies will serve to eradicate the need for around $500bn a year of fossil fuel investment resulting in an annual net capital investment requirement of $3tr.