If Apple was really concerned about the environment…

http://greenhellblog.com/2009/10/05/if-apple-was-really-concerned-about-the-environment/


If Apple was really concerned about the environment…
October 5, 2009

… it would leave China, not the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Apple told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in its resignation letter:

“Apple is committed to protecting the environment and the communities we operate in around the world. We strongly object to the Chamber’s recent comments opposing the EPA’s efforts to limit greenhouse gases. We would prefer the Chamber take a more progressive stance on this critical issue and play a constructive role in addressing the climate crisis. However, because the Chamber’s position differs so sharply with Apple’s, we have decided to resign our membership effective immediately.”

So when will Apple pressure the Chinese government to adopt the Clean Air Act? Isn’t actual air pollution in China much worse than the invisible, if not debatable/mythical, problem of U.S. CO2 emissions?

We doubt that Apple has any answers to those questions as Al I-need-cap-and-trade-to-become-the-first-carbon-billionaire Gore sits on its board of directors and, no doubt, cheerled Apple’s resignation from the U.S. Chamber.
Air quality in Shenzhen, China where Apple makes iPhones.

Air quality in Shenzhen, China where Apple makes iPhones.
Air quality over Apple HQ in Cuppertino, CA, where the company counts its profits made from the pollution in Shenzhen, China.

Air quality over Apple HQ in Cuppertino, CA, where the company counts its profits made from the pollution in Shenzhen, China.

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This entry was posted on October 5, 2009 at 6:21 pm and is filed under Capitalism Against Capitalism.
13 Responses to “If Apple was really concerned about the environment…”

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Michelle Malkin » Apple’s eco-sanctimony Says:

October 6, 2009 at 11:04 am

[...] Steve Milloy’s Green Hell blog points out that if Apple were really concerned about environmental health, it would leave China, not the US Chamber of Commerce: So when will Apple pressure the Chinese government to adopt the Clean Air Act? Isn’t actual air pollution in China much worse than the invisible, if not debatable/mythical, problem of U.S. CO2 emissions? [...]
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antigreennuke Says:

October 6, 2009 at 8:42 am

Another company with a “green sunshine butterflies” facade here, while requiring cheap electricity, uninsured cheap labour, non-green manufacturing conditions to produce their goods in China.

I wonder how much would Apple lecture us about being “green” if they were _forced_ to produce their goods in the U.S.?

Bad enough political correctness mandates nobody can speak his mind, now they’re even attacking those that DO speak out (the Chamber of Commerce).
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brr09 Says:

October 6, 2009 at 12:48 am

“We would prefer the Chamber take a more progressive stance on this critical issue and play a constructive role in addressing the climate crisis.”

Read: Dear Bad, Evil Carbon People…. We are very unhappy that you have not accepted the One Truth into your mind, heart, and soul. And you will regret that refusal, for we are Apple, a Progressive Company with a Progressive Stance that has increased the well-being of mankind far more than has that most Evil and Foul, Inc known as coal and oil. I mean, seriously… how can you even dare think that people would rather have an economical source of energy than one of our iPods?! Man, you must be, like, REALLY screwed up or something to think something like that!
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4timesayear Says:

October 6, 2009 at 12:47 am

I’d have to have pollution numbers on this one – there are photos on the internet that show the city looking almost as good as Cuppertino – and frankly, we have rural Iowa evenings look as bad as the Shenzhen photo here; we do get fog and haze.
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travchem Says:

October 6, 2009 at 11:00 am

I have been to China several times, and this photo is an accurate portrayal. You see an obvious haze looking just at the nearest streetlight, and, when looking down from a hotel window, the streets are blurred. In some areas, 10% of pedestrians were particulate masks.
Before the ‘08 Olympics, all factories within 500 km of Beijing were shuttered for 6 months to improve its air quality. China is an ecological disaster.
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Linky Love Monday | Midnight Blue Says Says:

October 5, 2009 at 11:01 pm

[...] Apple resigns from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over climate concerns. Too bad they don’t hold the same concerns in Shenzhen, China where Apple manufactures their Iphones. H/T: Green Hell Blog [...]
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livingwill1 Says:

October 5, 2009 at 8:25 pm

Almost any manufacturing done in China will increase CO2 output as the Chinese use mostly coal.
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bear865 Says:

October 5, 2009 at 11:11 pm

Until we get our hands on whatever TheAlGore used to produce the “hockey stick” and have it thoroughly examined by neutral third party people with appropriate skills, we will really know nothing.

And please start to realize we live on an alinear planet in an alinear solar system in an alinear galaxy, in an alinear universe. And please remember that climate is, at best, alinear. It is hard to think in an alinear manner, but we all have to start to do that, before we all are turned into Soylant Green, or some other substance useful to the elites who will in any case live.

Of course, that is not going to happen, so the “hockey stick” is true JUNK SCIENCE floated by well-paid whores. And thus it will remain, while the USA goes under because the Mack Daddy has been programmed to take us under, and people will continue to die in the third world by the hundreds of millions, because the wack-assed eco-elite, Leninist “useful idiots” will, at the behest of the Luciferian Synarchy, continue to use the UN to stop them from ever developing.

And remember the Mack Daddy’s “science adviser”: 90% dead or bust. Wonderful world, is it not?
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bear865 Says:

October 5, 2009 at 7:56 pm

Typical. Enslave and kill off the Chinese while they count their profits.

This is the eco-wacko wing of the Luciferian Synarchy, the useful idiots of which will tolerate what is done to the Chinese because their “gurus” (TheAlGore being one of them). The Luciferian Synarchy also includes the Currency Internationale, dead set on wrecking the world’s economy while they reap profits of unimaginable size.

And if 90% of the world’s population is to be genocided, per the Mack Daddy’s “Science Advisor”, won’t more horrific pollution in China kill more of us quicker?

If you study it, it all ties in. Eco-wackoism is just a part of it.
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keepdad Says:

October 5, 2009 at 7:41 pm

Gee. Aren’t they smug.
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rightbill Says:

October 5, 2009 at 7:55 pm

I think that’s spelled SMOG…
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bear865 Says:

October 5, 2009 at 7:57 pm

GOOD ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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higgy68 Says:

October 5, 2009 at 7:25 pm

Apple is no different than most other companies. They pay lip service to some of the preposterous environmental bs in order to sell what ever they are selling. The fact is there are some things that can be done but they are too mundane to tickle the fancy of environmental wackos and semi-responsible companies.