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Whole Foods CEO: 'Climate Change Is Not Necessarily Bad'
2013-01-18 18:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: It has been a week of controversial statements from Whole Foods CEO John Mackey. First, the self-described libertarian quickly walked back his statement that Obamacare is like fascism, admitting it was a bad choice of language. And on Friday Mackey a longtime denier of manmade climate change told Mother Jones that warming temperatures is not necessarily bad: Contrary to what has been written about me I am not a climate-change skeptic. Climate change is clearly occurring, and based...
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CEO: 'climate change is not necessarily bad'
2013-01-18 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: In 1978, John Mackey and his girlfriend used $45,000 in seed money to start "Safer Way," a natural foods store in Austin, Texas, that was supposed to offer shoppers an alternative to "evil" profit-seeking corporations. But soon the long-haired 25-year-old found himself lumped in with the people he was supposed to be fighting. His customers complained that his prices were too high. His workers thought they weren't being paid enough. Austin nonprofits said he should give them more money. And government...
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