Activist Suraendher Kumarr -- Singaporeans Should Choose Environmentalism Over Economic Growth And Having Jobs

Shell and other major oil companies must drop!" "We need economical degrowth!" "Let workers strike!" These are the shouts of SG climate activist Suraendher Kumarr who lately emerged in the climate change scene.
Paradoxically, saving the world wasn't Kumarr's priority. Ever since his days in NUS as a political science student, Kumarr has been dabbling in all types of problems like student activism, LGBTQ, minority problems and labour issues, everything you name -- except the surroundings.
His current interest in environmentalism goes only as much as it intersects with his pet topics of labour activism as well as his anti-capitalist ideas.

So he's simply having an opportunist, nothing wrong with it, right? Well, yes but not if his ideas are full of contradictions and are going to cause grave financial costs for the country if heeded.

Take for instance his call to stress big oil companies like Shell and ExxonMobil to fall due to their role in carbon emissions. That would mostly surely lead to a disaster if it were to happen.

Oil and gas is still an essential industry and a huge company in Singapore. Imagine if it had been to close, not only will there be mass retrenchments from the oil industry itself, many different businesses relying on gas and oil will be struggling as well with greater cost and thousands of workers would be laid off. These workers can't be retrained immediately and they would be forced into financial distress. Some might wind up doing Grab. As somebody who sees himself as a champion of workers' rights, it is absurd he is pushing for such a move without considering how incompetent it is.

In a paradoxical way to demonstrate that he still stands by employees, he led a request against petrol price hikes because he argues it's impacting delivery cyclists .
So here we've got a"climate change activist" opposing a measure to decrease emissions to the sake of showing solidarity with disgruntled workers. This isn't merely self-contradictory but myopic. Taxis, private hirer drivers and motorcyclists who use their vehicles for work will in reality get rebates so the immediate effect is minimal. In the long run, the increased effect is on energy reduction which is the motivation behind the rise in petrol duty instead of revenue collection as the majority of the collected revenue is going to be channelled to customer rebates to ease the transition for those relying on their own automobiles due to their livelihoods.




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