Another year, another report card…and another year Apple comes in dead last.
ClimateCounts has released its annual scorecard tallying up how major companies stack up on a set of 22 environmental criteria, including the extent to which they've publicly disclosed their climate-related actions, whether they support (or block!) progressive climate laws, reduce their impact on global warming, and attempt to measure their climate footprint. Last year, Apple came in dead last among electronics companies; this year, nothing has changed, with Apple scoring only 11 out of a possible 100 points. Even Finland's Nokia, which placed next-to-last, managed 37 out of 100.
This is interesting on at least two levels.
First, Apple is generally the beloved company of the environmentalists and those who see it as a small garage shop taking on the evil Microsoft.
Secondly, Al Gore is on Apple's board.
Now you would think that Pope Algore would be thundering from the Valley about how this must be changed, and giving notice that he will leave the board should it not. But no, he does not. Just as he chooses to fly on private jets and live in a house that has a carbon footprint 20 times the average citizen's home, he demonstrates again that he feels he is above the rest of us.
Do as I say, not as I do is his obvious position.
Couple this with the just released information that April was the 29th coolest month in 114 years, the fact that the earth has not been warming for the past 10 years along with the newly released information that the satellite collected ocean temperature readings show no increase and you can see that this is just about money and power.
Power for Al and your money for him to spend.
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