Greenwashing at Its Worst

The article on Sheikh Nawaf al-Sabah ‘94 might as well have been labeled “Sponsored Content” or “Advertisement.” Only at the very end of the piece, in three or four short paragraphs, is the truth given a nod: Claiming that an oil company can be carbon-neutral by reducing and sequestering its own emissions is like claiming that a drug dealer is helping to address the addiction crisis by quitting his own use of heroin while continuing, even increasing, his sales to the public. Oil may indeed have a place in the transition to a sustainable energy future, but vastly expanding oil production while setting up and toppling straw-man arguments about an immediate, cold-turkey end to all oil consumption is disingenuous. It is greenwashing at its worst.