"What good is it to save the planet?"

[Incitatus]

ExxonMobil’s CEO Asks: ‘What Good Is It to Save the Planet?’
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013 2 COMMENTS


Here’s a not-very-surprising development: At the ExxonMobil annual shareholder meeting in Dallas on May 29, the corporation’s CEO, Rex Tillerson, told those in attendance that an economy that runs on oil is here to stay and that cutting carbon emissions would do no good.

A rather more surprising development was that he also asked a rhetorical question: “What good is it to save the planet if humanity suffers?”

We assume he wasn’t referring to studies by Mark Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, which have noted that for “each increase of 1 degree Celsius caused by carbon dioxide, the resulting air pollution would lead annually to about a thousand additional deaths and many more cases of respiratory illness and asthma in the United States.”

But Tillerson was preaching to the choir since the Financial Post reports that while environmental activists proposed the company set goals to reduce emissions, shareholders sided with management and voted nearly three-to-one to reject that idea.

read more: http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/06/exxonmobil-ceo-asks-what-good-is-it-to-save-the-planet.html

[PuraVidaDreamin]

1. So let's push destruction of the planet into overdrive

I don't know if we can stop them. Was just recently arrested outside my local Nuclear Power plant protesting their antics. " oh, it's just a little leak.". They will drag it out over the year with several per- trial hearings. Then on the eve of the trial that we want, they will dismiss the case. This is how they toy with us.

Until more people join us, they will win. They will make this world inhabitable.

[NoOneMan]

2. Humanity is already suffering

What a false dichotomy that isn't even grounded in reality.