President Obama is enlisting conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch in his fight to combat climate change, with companies News Corporation and 21st Century Fox signing onto a White House pledge to cut emissions and support the president’s push for a global climate deal in Paris.
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Murdoch Sr. has handed off his empire to his sons.
In a seeming digression, Murdoch also weighed in on the U.S. domestic debate over hydraulic fracturing, which he said "has become a litmus test of principle".
"Those governments that forbid fracking are the flat-earth fraternity, yes, including New York state, he said. They believe that the Earth revolves around them.”
Environmentalists fail to recognize the need for oil and gas to remain the dominant sources of energy, he charged. To deny that reality is to condemn the most vulnerable to the indignity of poverty for the sake of an ideology — that being the ideology of self. The triumph of the me over the needs of the many.”
Liberal "self-indulgence" had hobbled America's sense of moral purpose, Murdoch suggested, asking: "How can we in this room be content with poverty, intellectual or economic, and how can we be content with a world defined by the ideologies of those who seek to please and appease?"