Apple CEO Tim Cook: Global Warming Skeptics Should Dump
Company's Stock
by Dan Riehl 2 Mar 2014, 12:31 PM
PDT
It may be hard for some to fathom
how a merger between big government and big business is a good thing. Certainly
it's far from a plus for individual liberty. But that would seem to be Apple CEO Tim Cook's agenda.
Cook, at the company's annual
shareholder meeting, said skeptics of climate change should sell their shares
in Apple's stock.
None of that sits well with folks
who don't think climate change is a
big deal — such as the National Center for Public Policy Research, a
conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. and an Apple shareholder. At
the company's annual shareholder meeting, the NCPPR urged Cook and the board to
pledge that Apple wouldn't pursue any more environmental initiatives that
didn't improve its bottom line.
Cook's response was blistering.
First of all, he insisted, environmental efforts also make economic sense. Even
so, "we do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive," the
CEO said. "We want to leave the world better than we found it."
Anyone who had a problem with
that? They should sell their Apple shares. "Get out of the stock,"
Cook suggested. Danhof's proposal was voted down by shareholders.
Cook has an impressive progressive
pedigree. In 2013, he accompanied First Lady Michelle Obama to the State of the
Union Address, and this year, he publicly made an appeal for amnesty for
illegal immigrants. On this same environmentalist tack, Cook hired Obama's
former EPA director, who resigned
from the administration mired in scandal.
Apple has made vast improvements
in its use of renewable energy since Cook took over from Steve Jobs. More than three-quarters of the company's facilities
worldwide, including all of its data centers and its Cupertino HQ, now run on
solar, wind, geothermal or hydro power, up from about a quarter under Jobs.
Last year, Cook hired Lisa Jackson, former head of the EPA, to lead the
company's sustainability efforts.
Apple
Steve
Jobs was the co-founder & chairman for Apple Inc., and married to Laurene
Powell Jobs.
Note: Laurene Powell
Jobs was married to Steve Jobs, and
a director at the New America Foundation.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the New America Foundation, the Climate
Reality Project, and the Center for
American Progress.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a
supporter for the Center for American
Progress.
Eric E. Schmidt is the chairman of the New
America Foundation (think
tank), was a funder for the New America
Foundation (think tank), a director at Apple Inc., and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant
(think tank).
Albert
A. Gore Jr. is a director at Apple
Inc., the chairman for the Climate
Reality Project, the narrator-host for An
Inconvenient Truth, a partner at Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers, a friend of Orin S. Kramer, and was a donor for The Climate Project.
An Inconvenient Truth
Synopsis
An Inconvenient Truth focuses on Al
Gore and on his travels in support of his
efforts to educate the public about the severity of the climate crisis. Gore
says, "I've been trying to tell this story for a long time and I feel as
if I've failed to get the message across."[6] The film documents a Keynote
presentation (which Gore refers to as "the slide show") that Gore has
presented throughout the world. It intersperses Gore's exploration of data and
predictions regarding climate
change and its potential for disaster with his
own life story.
Orin
S. Kramer is a friend of Albert A.
Gore Jr., a director at the Climate
Reality Project, and was an administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Carol M. Browner
was a director at the Climate Reality
Project, an administrator for the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the energy czar for the Barack Obama administration, and is a senior
fellow, director for the Center for
American Progress.
Lisa P. Jackson
was an administrator for the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and is the VP for Apple Inc.
Apple
Inc. was a funder for the Center for
American Progress.
Timothy
D. Cook is the CEO for Apple Inc.,
and a VP for the Compaq Computer
Corporation.
Thomas J. Perkins
was a director at the Compaq Computer
Corporation, and is a partner emeritus for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers was a donor for The Climate Project.
The Climate
Project is a merged organization with the Climate Reality Project.
Lee
M. Thomas was a director at the Climate
Reality Project, and an administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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