succeeding Martian President Elon Musk is a businessman and a capitalist , but ostensibly one with his center on the future . SpaceX is sample to make commercial infinite travel not only possible but cheap . Tesla seek to end our over - reliance on gas through electric car . So why is he on Twitter making nice with oil tycoon and writing table of state candidate Rex Tillerson ?
This may sound surprising add up from me , but I agree with The Economist . Rex Tillerson has the potential to be an excellent Sec of State .
— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk)January 24 , 2017
You ’re right — it does sound surprising coming from you , Elon ! Tillerson , ex - chief executive officer of ExxonMobil , has had some disparaging words on Musk ’s business interests in the past . A2015 articlefrom Bloomberg saw the oilman name the construct of amply galvanic vehicles as a piping dream , saying , “ We face at the skill and we guess it ’s a very , very intimidating challenge . ”
Letter from basically every scientific org in the United States to Congress about mood changehttps://t.co/vo1I1HY5fx
— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk)July 26 , 2016
On the other hand , Musk does n’t tend to tweet much about politics , and when he does , his stances are moderate — milquetoast , even . He has , however , nip in support of clime change , something the new administration — for which Tillerson is likely to be the secretaire of state — largelydoes not believe in .
They ’re convenient beliefs for these various magnates to cling to : Tillerson made money from petroleum and wanted to inseminate mistrust in option ; Musk profits by public concern over carbon emissions . What ’s peculiar is how rah - rah Musk has become all of a sudden , especially about someone like Tillerson .
Rex is an exceptionally competent executive director , understands geopolitics and knows how to win for his team . His team is now the USA .
A “ profits for his team ” might voice innocent enough , but it frames politics as a engagement rather than a bequest of via media in the public interest . To hear someone who supposedly represents a bright future guided by scientific discipline and innovation go to squash racquet for Trump and his cronies is disconcerting to say the least .
So what gives , Elon , was this poor phrasing ? Or , as an advisor on Trump ’s strategical and Policy Forum , are you just spouting off whatever ’s most commodious to your own stage business interest ? We ’ve DM’d you , so let us know .
Update 1/24/17 8:05pm EST : Elon , who still has not responded to our interrogative , kept on tweeting , substance to die on Tillerson Hill . He started with a two - parter , quote Tillerson at his substantiation audience .
… on how to address threats of clime alteration . They do require a globular response . "
— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk)January 25 , 2017
Sure . That hap . But Tillerson — according to theCSPAN transcriptof that hearing — terminate that curt solution to an imporant question with this : “ No one country will solve this alone . ” In other words , abdicating duty , as he ’s donemany , many timesin the past . Tillerson has repeatedly downplayed humanity ’s impingement on climate change and the severity of thawing .
Tillerson also said that “ the hazard of mood change does exist ” and he believed “ activity should be accept "
Musk added this corollary two minutes after , trying very , very hard to find anything Tillerson has said that could be construed as a rational answer to a massive planetary job . But let ’s be clear : saying that the jeopardy of something exists is not the same as saying this exists ; natural action should be taken does n’t intend I plan to do something about it .
Elon . Buddy . Do n’t do this . You have 13 billion dollars and a existent barb at being the future of space travel . Set a positive lesson for the rest of the rich , if not for the interest of your own conscience then for the rest of us .
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