Fighting Climate Change Is Bad For Business?

       It's impossible for business and industry to be competitive in high tax states like California. It's also impossible to be competitive while being forced to meet climate change rules. They kill business. I suspect you've heard these kinds of statements from Conservative leaders in this country. It's a battle cry used over and over.
       Have you ever heard of Apple? It's that company that's somewhat involved in electronics. Did you know that their worth, more than $760 billion, is larger than the economies of all but 17 countries in the world. Even bigger than Saudi Arabia according to an account in Daily Kos. It's arguably the most successful company in the 'modern era', according to the article, with the Dutch East India Company the largest overall with a worth of over $7 trillion. Apple had $13.6 billion in profits on $58 billion for just three months.
       All this and yet they're headquartered in California, one of the highest on corporate taxes. Not only that but they're a corporate leader on diversity in the workplace. Not only that, but they're a corporate leader in the global climate change battle to eliminate their own carbon footprint. They don't see it as a job killer, they see it as a job producer and a profit producer as well.
       Just think, the most profitable company in the world, right here in America, headquartered in California. Doesn't that make you wonder why Conservative Congressmen are putting up such a fight and suggesting that fighting climate change is bad for business? Whose business? The Koch brothers business? I'll bet there's a different reason than it being bad for business. I'll bet they get a whopping bunch of money from the Coal and Oil industries. That's what I think, how about you?