'Governments Must Lead': U.S. Corporations Beg Trump to Stay in Paris Agreement in Full Page NYT Ad
Source: Mediaite
by Jon Levine | 7:17 am, May 31st, 2017
Some of the biggest names in U.S. business are making their voices heard in the debate over whether the United States should stay in the Paris Climate Agreement. The 195 nation treaty from 2015 was one of the Obama administrations most significant second term achievements.
In a recent full page ad which ran in the New York Times and other major newspapers, Adobe, Apple, Google, Morgan Stanley, Salesforce, Microsoft, PG&E and numerous others beseeched President Trump not to withdraw from the agreement.
As businesses concerned with the well-being of our customers, our investors, our communities, and our suppliers, we are strengthening our climate resilience, and we are investing in innovative technologies that can help achieve a clean energy transition, they wrote. For this transition to succeed, however, governments must lead as well.
The ad went on to mention strengthening competitiveness, creating jobs, markets, and growth, and reducing business risks as the key reasons the United States should stay in the agreement.
Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/online/governments-must-lead-u-s-corporations-beg-trump-to-stay-in-paris-agreement-in-full-page-nyt-ad/
Roy Rolling
(6,853 posts)He listens to Putin.
iluvtennis
(19,756 posts)Chemisse
(30,793 posts)And pretend to be Putin!
LisaM
(27,758 posts)So much for Ivanka's influence.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)NickB79
(19,109 posts)Botany
(70,281 posts)Science Magazine
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/trump-s-defense-chief-cites-climate-change-national-security-challenge
Trumps defense chief cites climate change as national security challenge
By Andrew Revkin, ProPublicaMar. 14, 2017 , 1:00 PM
Reprinted from ProPublica
Secretary of Defense James Mattis has asserted that climate change is real, and a threat to American interests abroad and the Pentagons assets everywhere, a position that appears at odds with the views of the president who appointed him and many in the administration in which he serves.
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Climate change is impacting stability in areas of the world where our troops are operating today, Mattis said in written answers to questions posed after the public hearing by Democratic members of the committee. It is appropriate for the Combatant Commands to incorporate drivers of instability that impact the security environment in their areas into their planning.
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"Climate change is a challenge that requires a broader, whole-of government response. If confirmed, I will ensure that the Department of Defense plays its appropriate role within such a response by addressing national security aspects."
James Mattis
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)Hekate
(90,188 posts)...it turned out that the Pentagon had done a full analysis of the implications of global climate change from their particular perspective, because if you don't think that billions of coastal and new-desert refugees are going to create military/national security nightmares, then you are a moron on the scale of Trump, Pence, and Bannon.
I found this oddly comforting, because it showed that at least one branch of government was both deeply and broadly intelligent.
Delmette2.0
(4,141 posts)will be used covertly to fight climate change and protect our military bases that will be under water?
That would help undermiND 45's stubborn stupidity.
bucolic_frolic
(42,651 posts)to me like a global oligarch cabal to euthanize government, steal resources
physical and financial, and enslave the world in service to themselves.
teezy
(269 posts)And it's scary as fuck.
It brings those murals at the Denver Airport to life.
lark
(22,993 posts)That's drumpfs dream come true for sure.
CrispyQ
(36,221 posts)BadgerMom
(2,766 posts)That is the bigger picture.
catbyte
(34,165 posts)Nuremberg-Lite ego stroking rallies are well-attended. That's literally all he's got. He's the most mocked man in the world and it's getting to him.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)That is Trump's only goal.
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)It is mind numbing to me, how he is just viciously going through every single progressive and good thing our beloved Obama and others have accomplished, and just destroying it all, one by one.
That, and the obvious appointment of stooges in all cabinet positions, who are destroying the very departments they were appointed to.
Corporate greed and carelessness seems to be the soup of the day to these selfish morons.
This is absolute destruction of our way of life, and our rights and liberties.
The sad part, is that our system of government by its very nature is what has enabled this to happen.
It is the absolute abuse of power and liberty which is reaching into our very core values as a nation.
The freaks are coming out, and being visible to the good people in the country, and for better or worse, we can now at least see the evil among us.
calimary
(80,693 posts)I get a sardonic sense of "humor" about the conservative pal I know who sometimes mumbles "babykillers!" under her breath. Yep! And yet she voted for the guy whose policies will kill ALL babies. Born AND still in the fetus stage. And all babies of all species on earth, too, both animal and vegetable.
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)Yes, the massive boundless hypocrisy amazes me, on multiple levels.
I hang out here a little to feel as if I am among others, who at least have self awareness, and realization of decent human values, and appreciation of the natural world. It helps to alleviate the extreme anxiety that I have, waking up everyday to this unnatural and incomprehensible madness in our besieged Democracy.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)... except for the debt that was converted into obligations to Putin. That is being paid off steadily and big time.
IronLionZion
(45,250 posts)our customers, our investors, our communities, and our suppliers can go screw themselves like sad loser snowflakes - Trump (probably in his mind)
What makes anyone think Trump gives a shit about strengthening competitiveness, creating jobs, markets, and growth, and reducing business risks ?
Aristus
(66,075 posts)Tell Republican Presidents that they aren't qualified for the job. Tell them they're stupid. Tell them they are an embarrassment to the country and the world. Tell them everyone would be better off without them in office.
But never, never tell them they aren't leading!
Their fragile egos will bust open like a cheap pinata...
JudyM
(29,122 posts)Pity that there weren't more signatories, though.
mountain grammy
(26,568 posts)hatrack
(59,436 posts)Hmmm . . ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, Lukoil, Sinopec, Total, Petronas, Gazprom . . . it's almost like a pattern, but I just can't make it out . . .
ffr
(22,644 posts)He'll never read it or consider looking at it.
Put it in audio form or make a movie short, something that someone with the attention span of a dog could sit through.
hatrack
(59,436 posts)That would work!!
Duppers
(28,094 posts)Bengus81
(6,907 posts)Obama did it,we UNDO it.............
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Tillerson too it seems, also Ivanka.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)How does one make an "announcement" over "the next few days"?
"Within the next few days" works.
"Sometime in the next few days" makes sense.
You might think the "Leader of the Free World" would have the ability to string together less than a complete sentence into a tweet that makes some kind of coherent, comprehensible statement. Another bar we have to drop to the ground.
Link to tweet
DK504
(3,847 posts)rather than talking the talk. All of these corporations are also companies with the largest carbon footprints. Howsa about these companies make life for the Doofus in the WH hard to function. They all carry serious political weight. Walk the walk boys.
Freethinker65
(9,928 posts)They do not care what Trump does with US climate policy as long as all other policies are corporate friendly. Internationally they can appear to take the high ground by placing an ad proving they are not scientifically ignorant...plus they get to save face with some of us NYT reading "liberals".
rgbecker
(4,806 posts)Trump's supporters aren't reading the NYTimes and in fact, they now know these Corps are just a bunch of elites they can ignore.
Qutzupalotl
(14,230 posts)moondust
(19,917 posts)His position probably depended on how they treated him in Europe. If they kissed his ass and treated him like the King of Everything, then maybe he'd go along with it. Otherwise forget it, he's sticking with Scott "Fracking" Pruitt and the fossil fuel lobby. That's why he waited until he got home and added up their "flattery score" to announce.