We’re still seeing lots of corporations advertising their green credentials on what they are doing to combat climate change. I just saw one this evening on Fox Business from Siemens Company. I have no idea what they do, but I am tempted to e-mail them and ask them why they haven’t heard yet that climate change is a hoax.
Businesses may catch up to reality within, oh, ten years or so. Public schools will still be teaching AGW, all the glaciers gone by 2035, and drowning polar bears in 2050.
"Current satellite photos of the glaciers, you say? Polar bears eating people in Anchorage? Nonsense! It's a plot by George Bush to discredit Science!"
It's a P.R. thing.
1. They know being "green" saves them from having demonstrations in front of their offices and plants.
2. They think being "green" might help them sell their product to consumers -- since the media has convinced them consumers want "green" products from "green" companies. This is especially true if their customer is the government.
3. Because of #1, most major corporations contribute heavily to the "envirowacko" non-profits -- or, as Steyn styles them, the panda cuddlers. In fact, it is "protection money" -- and most left-wing non-profits have become very skilled at playing the extortion racket (Jesse Jackson probably taught them how it works).
4. Given the state of education today (especially what one might learn as an MBA at Harvard, Dartmounth, Penn), I wouldn't doubt that a large number of corporate executives actually fell for the scam. We'll see how many of them now have the intelligence to quietly walk away from "green".