Apple’s hiring of former EPA
Administrator Lisa Jackson last week gives her a soft landing place, after
she fled her cabinet role spurred by a flurry of evasions and
deceits over alias email accounts she and her underlings used to hide
correspondence from the public. Her would-be successor, Gina McCarthy, seeks to
be confirmed under the same cloud.
It’s unclear why Apple
would want or need Jackson, as its (faux) environmentalist credibility is
already well established, and the Mac maker already boasts the top figurehead
of eco-figureheads on its board of directors, Al Gore.
That’s not to say the
evasive, deceptive Jackson isn’t a fit for Apple, a company with a reputation
for falsely claiming “green”-friendly policies when the truth shows otherwise.
Also like Jackson, the Cupertino, Calif. clan isn’t shy about piling on
sky-high costs for the massive amounts of electricity it needs for services
like iCloud and iTunes, which rather than being incorporated into the costs of
its offerings, instead are shifted onto other unsuspecting power customers. That’s
a concept that Jackson, who never met a punish-the-fossil-fuels scheme she
didn’t absolutely love, can easily embrace……To Read More…..
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