Posted on 03/03/2014 4:00:38 PM PST by Windflier
Apple chief executive Tim Cook has told climate-change deniers they should not buy shares in the company.
Cook, 53, who took over the company shortly after Steve Jobs died of cancer in October 2011, was giving a talk at the 2014 Annual Meeting of Shareholders when he made the remarks.
The National Centre for Public Policy had called for Apple not to put money in green energy projects which are not profitable.
However, Cook said Apple did 'a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive' adding: 'We want to leave the world better than we found it.'
He said: 'If you want me to do things only for ROI (return on investment) reasons, you should get out of this stock.
'When we work on making devices accessible to the blind, I don't consider bloody ROI'.
Since becoming Apple's chief executive, Cook has increased the use of solar, wind and geothermal resources used to power the company's offices to more than 75 per cent.
He has also donated millions of dollars of Apple's money to charity.
Pledging to improve conditions for workers in China where iPhones and iPads are made he said: 'We believe that workers everywhere have the right to a safe and fair work environment.'
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Little Timmy Cook should take a long walk along the shores of the Great Lakes...
And check out those pretty ice caves while he’s at it.
I’ll do one better, global warmist pig.
I won’t buy any of Apples government spy apparatuses masquerading as internet appliances, either.
The temperature topped out at 14 degrees here in Southern Michigan today. The average high for March is 47 degrees.
I must have esp. I’ve never bought anything related to Apple.
Oh no! What will I invest my BitCoin in now?
God these people are smug.
Excuse me, but that is NOT what Time Cook said. Report what he said in context of the question. . . Not what the reporter wants you to believe he said.
Apple ping.
I don’t deny it is changing. I deny that man is causing it and question the politicians who want to cripple our economy and transfer our wealth to turd world countries.
Okay. Fill us in on what he really said.
Stop buying apple products!!! They’ll feel that.
Yesterday’s HIGH temperature here was -5F..please send some global warming.
Exactly. As if the climate was ever, or will ever be, a static system.
Overpriced and over valued.
Climate changes. Fact.
Power independence is a good thing. Clean power is a bonus.
Long view planning is better than next-quarter bottom-line focus.
Apple has mountains of cash. Profits aren’t a problem. Investing that cash sensibly is.
Going off-grid with instant economy-of-scale benefits is a good idea.
Bashing ‘cuz it’s Apple isn’t.
Cook did basically say that ROI is not his top priority. I beg to differ with him. It is his fiduciary responsibility, as head of a public corporation, to maximize the ROI for stockholders. In any case he did not handle this well. To me he comes across as a rabid Greenie. That is his prerogative as a private citizen, not necessarily as a CEO.
What do you expect with the Goron on the board?
He doesn’t knot shi...er...smelly Omabastuff about physics.
Hopehully, he will not ruin Apple.’cuz he is certainly no Steve Jobs.
Hey Cookdork, why not go somewhere your lack of talent fits...like perhaps Microsoft?
Leave Apple to adults please.
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