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paraclete |
09/21/06 |
Let's all bow down before the great Sir Richard. (I think I'll just go over to the corner and eat worms)
Branson urges Australia to sign Kyoto
September 22, 2006 - 8:29AM
British Businessman Sir Richard Branson says he will pressure the Australian government to sign the Kyoto agreement.
Sir Richard's Virgin Group has made a 10-year, $US3 billion ($A3.9 billion) commitment to renewable energy initiatives.
In an announcement in New York, Sir Richard committed Virgin to a green future, pledging that future dividends and proceeds from the sale of assets, including shares from Virgin's airline and train operations, would be invested in renewable energy initiatives.
These initiatives would be within Virgin's business and also involve further investments in new biofuel research and development production, distribution and other projects to tackle emissions related to global warming.
The tycoon told ABC radio the Australian government was dragging the chain on global warming.
He said he would move to make sure that next time around Australia would "get its act together" and sign the environmental agreement.
"The world has a very serious problem - it's ill and it's going to get iller unless we do something radical," Sir Richard said.
"I have got children and one day they will have grandchildren and I want to make sure the grow up in a similar world to the world that my parents and grandparents bequeathed myself and the rest of us."
Sir Richard said the Virgin group was effectively taking on the oil and coal companies though this pledge.
"We need everybody to join in to do their bit to tackle global warming," he said.
"People can do it at their homes by turning off their airconditioning units, they can try to get smaller cars, they can try to get hybrid cars they can try to persuade their local petrol station to supply ethanol ... there's so much that the individual can do, if we can get a global movement going then I think we can reverse this problem.
"What we have effectively got is a fire burning around the world which is getting stronger and stronger every year, and we have go to put that fire out," he said.
Sir Richard said he would make sure not a penny of the money was wasted.
"I think if you happen to be lucky enough in your lifetime to become a successful entrepreneur, extreme wealth goes with it and therefore extreme responsibility goes with it," he said.
"Capitalism has it's faults and one of it's faults is that a lot of wealth ends up in the hands of very few people, and those people have the responsibility to use that wealth constructively and for the benefit of society."
© 2006 AAP
Somehow I don't think Richard gets out of his air conditioned office at 30,000 feet very often or perhaps he has used his rocket plane to take up a commanding position in geostationary orbit above the Earth from which lofty eminence he pulls the strings of his puppets here on Earth. Don't you just love meglomaniacs? |
Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 09/22/06 4:30 pm:
more on Ahhnold :
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/schwarzenegger%20gives%20up%20hummers_1008982
HUMMERS
Also see:
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
TERMINATOR
AL GORE
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER has ditched his beloved $950,000 (GBP500,000) fleet of Hummer cars in a bid to save the environment. The TERMINATOR movie star-turned-California governor is devoted to the sport utility vehicles for their "precision". He was the first person to own one of cars in 1992 after persuading manufacturers to make them for non-army purposes. But Hummers emit three times more carbon dioxide than a regular car - and after the State of California announced it was suing carmakers Toyota, Nissan, Ford, Honda, Chrysler and General Motors over greenhouse gas emissions, ex movie star Schwarzenegger felt it was prudent to make the change. Eco-aware campaigner AL GORE confirms, "Arnie has given up his Hummers."
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