A Koch Brothers Biopic
Dark money has played a crucial role in perpetuating climate denial, and there’s perhaps no more powerful dark money influence on climate policies than the Koch family, most notably brothers Charles and David. The brothers started out as managers at their family’s oil refining business and went on to become billionaires. Their corrosive influence on the climate discourse includes being some of the most important funders of denial through their contributions to conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, and Americans for Prosperity.
While their outsize influence was kept hush-hush for years, dogged reporting over the past decade has exposed the brothers’ powerful influence on the climate denial machine from the 1990s to today. There’s no better way to portray the way private interests have changed the course of climate politics than following the Kochs’ money—and given how many big political players have taken handouts from them over the past 30 years, it would make a pretty gripping historical biopic.
