President Donald Trump is considering pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, but some of the biggest names in tech are begging him to stay in, including Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Trump announced today that his decision on the Paris agreement will be revealed in the next few days. During his presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly said that the agreement was bad for America. Now that he’s on the verge of pulling out, Tim Cook, Elon Musk and others are desperately trying to tell Trump to that breaking the agreement would be a disaster.
According to a new report from Bloomberg, Tim Cook called the White House on Tuesday urging the president to keep the U.S. in the agreement. Elon Musk tweeted today that he has also directly advised the president to remain in on the deal that was signed by 195 countries.
Don't know which way Paris will go, but I've done all I can to advise directly to POTUS, through others in WH & via councils, that we remain
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 31, 2017
Pressuring Trump to stay
While Musk and Cook have called Trump directly, 25 other companies have signed an open letter to Trump that will run as a full-page ad in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal on Thursday. Intel, Microsoft and PG&E are among the signees.
Twenty-five companies, including Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp. and PG&E Corp., have signed on to a letter set to run as a full-page advertisement in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal on Thursday arguing in favor of climate pact.
“By expanding markets for innovative clean technologies, the agreement generates jobs and economic growth,” the open letter says. “U.S. companies are well positioned to lead in these markets. Withdrawing from the agreement will limit our access to them and could expose us to retaliatory measures.”
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
9 responses to “Tim Cook urges Trump not to back out of Paris agreement”
thanks tim for trying to knock some sense in this terrible excuse for a present. he is a disaster and hopefully we will get rid of him soon.
STFU already Cook and just, FINALLY, get some new Mac product on the shelves. Assuming that’s not dragging you away from your job as full time, unelected, political leader.
You STFU, Tim Is representing Apples values and doing it well.
Tim is representing Apple’s values? How utterly charming it is to discover that there are innocents alive who have managed to survive long enough to reach adulthood and yet who believe in such hilarious, and patiently fraudulent, ideas such as the existence of “Apple values”. If such a thing existed, Apple’s values would be: sell more iPhones, sell more iPhones, just sell some more f**king iPhones! That is where Apple’s values begin and end, the bottom line. Anyone who believes otherwise is an imbecile.
The “topic at hand” is “Apple’s values” and if you think Apple has values other than making the greatest amount of money possible then you’re gullible AF.
Move to China? You mean the place arch environmentalist Tim Cooke has located virtually all of Apple’s manufacturing? The place that might eventually, i.e. in 2030, get around to enforcing the Paris Climate agreement? The place still building coal power generators?
If Tim Cooke, or Apple had “environmental values” they’d have pulled out of China years ago. Instead they settled for pulling the wool over the eyes of credulous children like you.
Oooohhhhh, you got me on a typo, YOU WIN‼️➖
Apple should get all the assets back to US, start manufacturing in US and sell phones for subsidized price to US citizens. Then probably their advice maybe considered. lol!
this salesman should put his efforts back into apples past relationship with its customers and its products instead of sticking his ass into political matters. And as a previous poster said, put its money back into the US and bring manufacturing and jobs as well.