The Koch brothers helped destroy a healthy bipartisan consensus on climate change
have been as cruelly self-serving as Andrew Carnegie. Fatal accidents at his steel mills accounted for a fifth of all male deaths in Pittsburgh in the 1880s. Most of his surviving employees, ground down by 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, were discarded by the age of 40. Carnegie did not much mind such human wastage. Influenced by an extreme version of Darwinism, he considered the winnowing of the feeble and thriving of the ablest—in this case, himself—to be progress.
Mr Koch’s obituarists have tended to stress either the good or bad he did, according to their politics. The settled view of Carnegie—that his philanthropy was great and his business practices unconscionable—suggests history’s judgment will be more clear-eyed. No amount of charity can negate the damage the brothers have done to Americans’ trust in expert opinion, as well as to the environment. Moreover Mr Koch’s philanthropy, like Carnegie’s, was to some degree expedient.
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