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"We believe every company, government and individual has a role to play. Climate change is a shared, global challenge that is best addressed at scale."
In a rebuff to climate deniers, the CEO of American food giant General Mills has asserted that global warming is being created by human activity and is threatening to disrupt global food supplies.
Announcing that the company has set a goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent over the next decade across its value chain, from farm to fork to landfill, Ken Powell told The Associated Press: We think that human-caused greenhouse gas causes climate change and climate volatility and that's going to stress the agricultural supply chain, which is very important to us. Obviously we depend on that for our business, and we all depend on that for the food we eat."
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dieter
(94 posts)Ah yes, only when money/profit is in jeopardy do the multinationals begin to take climate change seriously.
Not exactly surprised.
tecelote
(5,122 posts)but, I wish they would also worry about glyphosate and other pesticides poisoning our land along with the destruction of wilderness for agriculture.
As you say, profit is king.
The local Ski Areas are all pushing green hard- because their snow is disappearing and wildfires are eating their slopes.
Nobody took it seriously until it ate into their livelyhood.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Climate change is going to impose its own solution, and it's not going to be a matter of debate.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)As you say, reality will impose its own solution.
Hekate
(90,978 posts)....the coal and oil industries.
Facility Inspector
(615 posts)yeah, right.
0rganism
(23,984 posts)thus justifying the obscene amount of money they will donate to climate change-denying candidates in 2016.
TBF
(32,118 posts)for CEO bonuses.
0rganism
(23,984 posts)GMills announces climate change will cause food scarcity
GMills begins work on new retail cost structure for products to align with predicted raw food availability levels
GMills gives obscenely huge bonuses to VPs and corporate officers, especially those in charge of planning the new "scarcity profit paradigm"
GMills VPs and corporate officers invisibly donate large amounts of money to the Ted Cruz and Scott Walker superPACs
Mission Accomplished.
Shandris
(3,447 posts)What big business, in the history of big business, has ever -- EVER -- committed to a 'policy goal' to 'pass legislation' that wasn't 100% about increasing their profits? If any good comes from the legislation at all, it will only be because there's a hidden kickback or payoff elsewhere.
Sounds good, but the scam just isn't visible yet. And there IS a scam in it somewhere, else these people would in no way join in.
((Erm...to be clear, the 'scam' I'm referring to is their sudden switch on policy, not the topic of climate change itself, obviously.))