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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhole Foods CEO: ‘Climate Change Is Not Necessarily Bad’
It has been a week of controversial statements from Whole Foods CEO John Mackey. First, the self-described libertarian quickly walked back his statement that Obamacare is like fascism, admitting it was a bad choice of language. And on Friday Mackey a longtime denier of manmade climate change told Mother Jones that warming temperatures is not necessarily bad:
Contrary to what has been written about me I am not a climate-change skeptic. Climate change is clearly occurring, and based on what I have read global temperatures have increased about 1.5 degrees Celsius over the past 150 years.
Weve been in a gradual warming trend since the ending of the Little Ice Age in about 1870, and climate change is perfectly natural and not necessarily bad. In general, most of humanity tends to flourish more when global temperatures are in a warming trend and I believe we will be able to successfully adapt to gradually rising temperatures. What I am opposed to is trying to stop virtually all economic progress because of the fear of climate change. I would hate to see billions of people condemned to remain in poverty because of climate-change fears.
Mackey makes light of a global issue that has destroyed homes, businesses, and basic resources.
The National Climate Assessment lays out how Climate change is already affecting the American people. It states, Certain types of weather events have become more frequent and/or intense including heat waves, heavy downpours and in some regions floods and drought. Sea level is rising, oceans are becoming more acidic, and glaciers and Arctic sea ice are melting. And the poor are the hardest hit by the changing climate, where cities in Mexico, Venezuela, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, the Phillippines are some of the most vulnerable. The Philippines, for instance, was hit by an unprecedented typhoon that killed more than 1,000 people; meanwhile, East Coast cities are still reeling from Hurricane Sandy.
One report estimates as many as 100 million people could die from climate change consequences by 2030.
Contrary to what has been written about me I am not a climate-change skeptic. Climate change is clearly occurring, and based on what I have read global temperatures have increased about 1.5 degrees Celsius over the past 150 years.
Weve been in a gradual warming trend since the ending of the Little Ice Age in about 1870, and climate change is perfectly natural and not necessarily bad. In general, most of humanity tends to flourish more when global temperatures are in a warming trend and I believe we will be able to successfully adapt to gradually rising temperatures. What I am opposed to is trying to stop virtually all economic progress because of the fear of climate change. I would hate to see billions of people condemned to remain in poverty because of climate-change fears.
Mackey makes light of a global issue that has destroyed homes, businesses, and basic resources.
The National Climate Assessment lays out how Climate change is already affecting the American people. It states, Certain types of weather events have become more frequent and/or intense including heat waves, heavy downpours and in some regions floods and drought. Sea level is rising, oceans are becoming more acidic, and glaciers and Arctic sea ice are melting. And the poor are the hardest hit by the changing climate, where cities in Mexico, Venezuela, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, the Phillippines are some of the most vulnerable. The Philippines, for instance, was hit by an unprecedented typhoon that killed more than 1,000 people; meanwhile, East Coast cities are still reeling from Hurricane Sandy.
One report estimates as many as 100 million people could die from climate change consequences by 2030.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/18/1470631/whole-foods-climate-change/
Every time this guy opens his mouth, he loses another customer.
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Whole Foods CEO: ‘Climate Change Is Not Necessarily Bad’ (Original Post)
octoberlib
Jan 2013
OP
"I believe we will be able to successfully adapt to gradually rising temperatures."
ChisolmTrailDem
Jan 2013
#19
BeyondGeography
(39,370 posts)1. Forget it, he's rolling
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)6. in overdrive; full throttle...
Initech
(100,068 posts)23. OVER???? Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!!!!
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)2. AssWhole Foods
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)14. LOL
Beaverhausen
(24,470 posts)24. Brilliant!
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)3. Opens mouth and removes all doubt.
Fool
not the poster, but the CEO.
Pryderi
(6,772 posts)4. What a dick. If I were an investor, I'd fire him.
Whole Foods Market, Inc.
NASDAQ: WFM - Jan 18 1:50pm ET
90.17-0.07 (-0.08% )
geomon666
(7,512 posts)5. I love it.
We need more corporate owners to go on public record so we can all see for ourselves what ideology our money is funding.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)7. What a phucking moran!
Series-ly...no one should be shopping at his sh*tty store from now on.
kysrsoze
(6,019 posts)8. Fuck that greedy asshole. Not one dime to that place.
I shop Trader Joe's and Aldi, both good German socialist-owned stores.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)9. The Stanky Climate-Lying Soul of Republican Stoopidity (R)
dballance
(5,756 posts)10. He might start to think it's bad when his prices
From wholesalers start going up because there is less land to grow on. Also, they'll likely have to increase irrigation. Which will increase production costs and they'll pass it along to him.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)11. Whole Foods is not big on seafood sales?
Increased temperature and acidification is rough on sea life.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)12. Maybe not if ya wanna grow wheat in Alaska
Raine
(30,540 posts)13. Whole Paycheck is too expensive for me to shop at which is
just as well if that is their attitude.
Morning Dew
(6,539 posts)15. In A Move To Change Company Name To "No Foods", CEO states...
n/m
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)18. Has the Whole Foods boycott started yet.? nt
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)19. "I believe we will be able to successfully adapt to gradually rising temperatures."
Makes his case for evolution while probably otherwise an evolution denier.
Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)20. Another reason to jettison WholePaycheck
Whisp
(24,096 posts)21. Mackey is Whacky.