The New York Times added an editor’s note on 17 September 2014 stating that the op-ed did not disclose that she had been an adviser to Azerbaijan’s state-run oil company and that her contributor contract required disclosure of actual or potential conflicts of interest
That’s the part that makes me think “too weak” as in “the West has shown by its weak renewables policy that it’s not able to wean itself off of fossil fuels”.
I’m not saying it’s crystal clear; it’s all badly written.
Brenda Shaffer, whoever she is, is clearly an idiot.
She got a bad case of Murdoch…
Lol her wikipedia article lists a history of corruption from oil companies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Shaffer
and there’s like 3 more cases of that…
I’m reading that as “the global renewables policy is too weak, and now Iran has more leverage because of that policy weakness”.
That could be, but the sub-heading makes me question that.
That’s the part that makes me think “too weak” as in “the West has shown by its weak renewables policy that it’s not able to wean itself off of fossil fuels”.
I’m not saying it’s crystal clear; it’s all badly written.
The “west” makes me think this was made by russian propagandists
Yes he’s called Murdoch.
Definitely a possibility, although I know that headline writers are sometimes just stupid.
Yeah I wish lol. She’s just a crook, check her wikipedia out
Could/should be an alias