Polluters and their enablers reveal true colours on sustainability

Last week we saw some eye-watering headlines where polluters and their financial enablers have been “rolling back” their previous sustainability goals:

• HSBC Says It's Time to End 'Negative Bias' Toward Fossil Fuels

• BP shuns renewables in return to oil and gas

Here another new headline shows how JP Morgan has been selling supposedly sustainable investments that include polluters:

• JP Morgan’s ‘sustainable’ funds invested £200m in mining giant Glencore

There is a tendency for these rollbacks to be blamed on Trump. There might be some truth to this (and each “rollback” has slightly different reasoning, including recent changes to EU legislation) but there is a bigger underlying truth here:

• Most of these corporations and legislators have always been a bunch of lying, polluting, money-grabbing and spineless scammers: the only change is that they are now comfortable being honest about their intentions post-Trump.

Such honesty is actually great news as it revels the true colours of the polluters and their enablers, making the need for Our Fair Future increasingly obvious to most people.