MRC NewsBusters by Corinne Weaver 12/4/2019
Big Tech CEOs for Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other companies signed an agreement with a labor union leader stating that they would uphold the standards set by the Paris Agreement.
The United States government, under President Trump, pulled out of the Paris Agreement in 2017, the only country to do so. The statement signed by 78 CEOs said, “[M]any of us came together to rally behind the US’ participation in the Paris Agreement. We came to say we are still in.†Apple CEO Tim Cook, Salesforce Co-CEO Marc Benioff, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai all signed the agreement.
The statement “urge[d] the United States to join us in staying in.†It painted a bleak picture, saying, “Today, with record temperatures across the country, fiercer hurricanes pummeling coasts, more destructive wildfires, droughts and flooding disrupting the economy, we have no time to waste.â€
It also said that the combined companies employed “more than two million people in the United States†and the union represented “12.5 million workers.†However, the total of those in the American workforce is estimated to be at around 157 million, according to the Pew Research Center. This statement only speaks for roughly 9.2 percent of American workers, along with their elite employers.
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https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/corinne-weaver/2019/12/04/big-tech-ceos-support-paris-climate-agreement-opposing-us
