Yesterday, a radical environmental activism group called Rising Tide North America perpetrated a hoax aimed at embarrassing the U.S. Climate Action Partnership as the U.N. climate change conference gets underway in Bali, Indonesia.
Rising Tide sent out the press release on USCAP letterhead, and even set up a sham website, claiming that the USCAP member companies had endorsed a variety of false measures, including a commitment to a 90% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions over the next 40 years. It later released a real statement that gleefully took credit for the juvenile stunt, and went on to rail against the USCAP companies and capitalism in general.
Clearly, the folks at Rising Tide don’t realize that their uncompromising strategy and apocalyptic rhetoric is part of the problem, not part of the solution. Climate change and carbon reduction is a complicated problem that can’t be solved by simply saying “we have to stop using all fossil fuels right now.” Compromise is necessary, and environmental groups interested in the climate change issue should welcome large corporations to the table, not mock them.
We here at Terra Rossa have applauded the companies at USCAP for their leadership on this issue, and will continue to do so. Groups like Rising Tide can either get with the program, or find themselves on the irrelevant fringe.
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