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Fortune
Fortune
Bill Novelli

Climate change is the next frontier of America’s culture wars. Corporations are still doing the right thing–and hoping no one notices

(Credit: Jemal Countess—Congressional Integrity Project/Getty Images)

The American culture wars are stoking up ahead of the 2024 election season. In this country, where we manage to disagree about many things from guns to gender to parents’ rights, climate change, and the environment are now making their way to the top of our conflict agenda.

The political right is outraged that oil and gas enterprises–and the jobs they represent–are under threat. Meanwhile, the left sees a burning planet and wants the financial sector and public institutions to divest their fossil fuel portfolio and bar oil and gas executives from COP conferences and polite company.

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