GE CEO Immelt knocks Trump on climate

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt says President Donald Trump’s imagination is at work if he doesn’t believe in climate change science or the Paris agreement that President Barack Obama signed onto before leaving office.

And Immelt is calling on other companies to step up to fill the void that the administration is leaving behind.

“Companies must be resilient and learn to adjust to political volatility all over the world," Immelt wrote Wednesday in an internal company blog post obtained by POLITICO. "Companies must have their own ‘foreign policy’ and create technology and solutions that address local needs for our customers and society.”

Immelt has been GE’s CEO since 2000, and is often seen as one of the country’s major business leaders.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-climate-change-immelt-236671

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Someone's going to get a nasty tweeting to...

[NewJeffCT]

1. Immelt is also very conservative

though, a lot of Republicans don't believe it because GE used to own NBC (and thus, MSNBC)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Canada has decided to move forward and innovate. They'll be selling to the US when tRump goes.

Canada, Germany, and China are solidly moving forward on green sustainable technology, in fits and starts of course, and not perfectly, but definitely moving forward.

When the US gets rid of tRump-Pence-Ryan and reverts to rationality and good sense, those countries and others will be ready to sell goods and services to the US as it scrambles to catch up.

Obama was trying to get the US ready to sell such goods and services to others like India and Southeast Asia.

California under Brown may be the US's saving grace.

[notdarkyet]

3. Ty Mr. Immelt. Corporations, businesses and all people don't need a law to tell

Us the right thing to do. Businesses used to pay their employees a good living, donated to their communities and paid high taxes to insure good schools and infrastructure We are facing an uncertain future with climate change that could impact all our lives from air, to food, to water. It's good to know there are responsible people who care about their grandchildrens future instead of wanting to exploit public land, not pay taxes, and get out of providing safe work places so they can squeeze a few more dollars of an already top heavy economy. I hope more business people stand up for (might as well ask for everything) the EPA. Regulations were not created out of thin air and whims. There are two sides. Make a choice.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Hats off to you, Sir!

GE has always been on the cutting edge of technology, and this progressive forward looking
stance on climate change is fully expected and appreciated!

[Dawson Leery]

5. GE is heavily invested in alternative energy.

No more finance, no more appliances.