Musk is a believer in progress
Sometimes, reality begs to differ – even with Donald Trump , is a paradox. So is spluttering towards the massive stadium in an ancient taxi pumping out smoky fumes, and a comically off-message greeting from the Azerbaijani president, Ilham Aliyev, who declared: “Oil, gas, wind… are natural resources and countries should not be blamed for having them… the market needs them.”
That leaves Sir Keir Starmer and Ed Miliband – who are attending Baku for a short stay to foreground their push to cut greenhouse gas emissions by four-fifths by 2035 – in something of a minority position, and exposed at home to the charge that their aims can be met only by limiting consumer choices.
There is argumentative meat for his political opponents. But Starmer does also have an opportunity to present Britain as a green tech investment destination via more sophisticated battery storage and, as America turns inwards, as a finance capital for investment in climate solutions. For another, US enterprises with international outposts worry about the profit- and growth-eroding aspects of adverse climate – and will make that view count in the new White House.Musk is in many ways a deleterious figure, overweening and unaccountable. But he is also a believer in progress, which may well have fed into early messages – including a statement on social media by Melania Trump, who vaunted “American energy, skill, and initiative” as answers to economic woes.
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