Kansas's Self-Destruct Button: A Bill to Outlaw Sustainability

[niyad]

4. I bet we can guess who these dozen or so "people: are.

(how in the HELL can you bring up a bill, say people put you up to it, but not have to say who (or what) those "people" are? And not have to say exactly what in the HELL you are talking about?

forgive me, I occasionally think we are living in a rational world.

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OK, Kansas is the eighth biggest oil-and-gas producing state in the U.S., and fossil fuels will remain a big part of the economy for decades to come. Ask Dennis Hedke. He’s the geophysicist who does contract work for oil and gas companies and is chairman of the committee that wants to ban sustainability in Kansas.

Hedke said in a phone interview that he brought the bill to the committee on behalf of a group of “maybe a dozen” people who approached him about it. “The idea of sustainable development and its association with a range of activities is something that needs to be scrutinized in the public domain,” he said. Hedke declined to comment on what sorts of activities he was referring to and wouldn’t disclose who was involved in the group that brought him the bill.

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