I'm surprised that Tesla is welcomed by Texas. They are, after all, reducing fossil fuels burnt with every car sold. I thought that supporting non-fossil energy was discouraged there.
> The law is explicit: Companies that abstain from investing in fossil fuels for strictly financial reasons, rather than as an ethical or environmental position, are not banned.
Seems perfectly reasonable to me. Pensions have a fiduciary duty to maximize payout to beneficiaries who have paid in. There's no room for your moral crusade when managing other people's money.
I rarely see it cited as an explicit influence but a lot of the platform of the american right today aligns with ecofascism. The rhetoric around their focus on the border particularly, their reactionary image of a romanticized, pastoral/pioneering past america. For musk specifically, the pronatalism: after all they don't think that global birth rates are too low, just some birth rates.
