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

Shell and other major oil companies must drop!" "We need economic degrowth!" "Let employees strike!" These are the cries of SG climate activist Suraendher Kumarr who recently emerged in the climate change scene.
Ironically, saving the world was never Kumarr's priority. Ever since his days in NUS as a political science student, Kumarr has been dabbling in all kinds of issues such as student activism, LGBTQ, minority problems and labor issues, everything you title -- except the environment.
His present fascination with environmentalism goes only as much as it intersects with his pet topics of labour activism and his anti-capitalist ideas.

So he's just being an opportunist, nothing wrong with it, right? Well, yes but not if his ideas are full of contradictions and will cause grave financial prices for the country when heeded.

Take for instance his telephone to stress big petroleum companies like Shell and ExxonMobil to collapse due to their role in carbon emissions. That would mostly certainly lead to a disaster if it was to happen.

Oil and gas remains a very important industry and a huge company in Singapore. Imagine if it were to shut, not only will there be mass retrenchments in the oil sector itself, many different industries relying on oil and gas would be fighting as well with greater cost and tens of thousands of employees would be put off. These employees cannot be retrained overnight and they'd be forced into financial distress. Some would wind up doing Grab. As someone who sees himself as a champion of workers' rights, it is absurd he is pushing for such a move without considering just how incompetent it is.

In a paradoxical way to demonstrate that he still stands by workers, he led a request against petrol price hikes because he claims it is affecting delivery cyclists .
So here we've got a"climate change activist" opposing a measure to reduce emissions to the sake of showing solidarity with disgruntled workers. This isn't only self-contradictory but myopic. Taxis, personal 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 rather than revenue collection since most of the collected revenue is going to be channelled to customer rebates to facilitate the transition for people relying upon their own automobiles for their livelihoods.




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