Apple has a responsibility to all of their STAKEholders not just their shareholders as do all businesses. They need to keep their ear to the ground and be aware and proactive about the world around them as they do business in all these countries.
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Apple Donating Money to Preserve Amazon Rainforests Following Devastating Fires
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How exactly does donating to a cause like this actually help the cause? Brazil's own government enacted laws that allow deforestation at a more rapid pace.
Maybe. Also very easy to do with Other Peoples’ Money
maybe, certainly easy thing todo with OPM
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That was an awesome article, thank you for sharing! I think I'll pass it on!
Here's my dose of doom and gloom.
I live in Singapore, just a few degrees north of the equator. Prime tropical climate. Over the past two months we had so little rain and so much heat our grass is all yellow and the younger and newer trees literally dried up and died. For a month Singapore wasn't green, it was yellow.
We need to change our mindset and stop thinking we can cut down the trees first and then regrow them somewhere else convenient later. What if we as humans have lost the ability to regrow vegetation in the short term and can't replace the older trees we lost. In the long term nature will find a way to adapt to the changing climate but short term human efforts will be limited. Now if the July and August we had worldwide is going to be a permanent fixture then human efforts to regrow new vegetation will just die every summer and couldn't last past a year.
Obviously that doesn't mean we stop trying but we need a drastic change in how we deal with this new reality.
I live in Singapore, just a few degrees north of the equator. Prime tropical climate. Over the past two months we had so little rain and so much heat our grass is all yellow and the younger and newer trees literally dried up and died. For a month Singapore wasn't green, it was yellow.
We need to change our mindset and stop thinking we can cut down the trees first and then regrow them somewhere else convenient later. What if we as humans have lost the ability to regrow vegetation in the short term and can't replace the older trees we lost. In the long term nature will find a way to adapt to the changing climate but short term human efforts will be limited. Now if the July and August we had worldwide is going to be a permanent fixture then human efforts to regrow new vegetation will just die every summer and couldn't last past a year.
Obviously that doesn't mean we stop trying but we need a drastic change in how we deal with this new reality.
Well then here's more to the story:
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...obal-leaders-urged-divert-brazil-suicide-path
Why compare a million dollars with Tim Apple’s salary? Having increased the company’s value by some half a trillion dollars, Mr. Apple is worth every penny!
Anyway, you’ve missed a real opportunity here. Apple’s revenues are hundreds of billions of dollars per year. Try again?
It is because sea surface temps are above average in the central pacific (currently a decaying ElNino event) and also in the Arabian Sea, and below average around the maritime continent where you are (Indian Ocean Dipole). This is cyclical and ENSO and IOD usually operate in tandem. Thus you have dry descending air over Singapore, Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia. This seasonality cannot be attributed as driven by climate change in any detectable way, not that it stops people. It is this kind of miscausation that drives the caution of some sceptics that are more tolerable than the ear plug types.
It’s scary how even forest fires have become a political debate. As soon as an international environmental issue is raised, there’s a huge backlash of conservatives.
The fact is that the Rainforest is on fire, and the main culprit are humans. And either we do something about it, or we let it all burn. It’s a choice we have to make. Whether that’s our choice or the sole responsibility of Brazil is another matter.
For climate change that question is not relevant. No nation can address this issue alone. Back in the nineties when all countries had to collaborate to repair the ozone layer, we lived in a different world. In 2019 it’s far harder to get all countries in line to fight for the common good. And that’s a very scary evolution.
Glad Apple is doing it’s part. But it’s not going to be enough.
It consumes carbon dioxide. It does not consume 20% of the world's oxygen.
Sadly the ocean is becoming so polluted that it's very worrying that 80% of our oxygen comes from the sea especially with Fukushima still leaking its radioactivity into the beautiful ocean.
People need to stop being so greedy and start appreciate this beautiful planet.
Never believe anything written in Forbes!
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Free speech doesn't mean unlimited speech.
The 1st Amendment specifically states that the government will not make any laws abridging the freedom of speech. Apple/Tim Cook isn't the government.
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I can see that.
Unfortunately, humans are rapidly destroying the ecosystem of the ocean. It doesn't help that the Fukishima Plant is still leaking into our waters as well.
Seems like humanity needs to hurry up and take action, or have nature reset everything.
Incorrect.
The Amazon consumes as much oxygen as it creates.
There are several articles already linked in previous posts that dispels the myth you are putting forth.
Here's another one.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/scienc...nt-deplete-the-earths-oxygen-supply-heres-why
Here's one that even corrects the 20% number as well.
https://climatenexus.org/climate-ne...blem-20-figure-at-least-three-times-too-high/
Reality, a good portion of the worlds oxygen is generated by the oceans.
Few things first it isn't a one to one exchange because of photosynthesis, it's true the oxygen lost won't make a major difference. The carbon storage is another more important loss. Then add that the rainforest makes its on weather...Rain. So you guys are building another desert by removing the forest.
Amazon Rain Forest gets all the attention. Meanwhile, the deforestation of Madagascar continues.
By spreading more misinformation? Forbes is a well known anti-environmental neo-con publication.
If some shareholders don’t like it they can sell their shares or make their opinion known at the next shareholder meeting. Otherwise they’ll just have to get over it.