…is just one of many reasons I love Apple.
CEO Tim Cook said Friday at the company's annual shareholder meeting that there is no room at the table for climate deniers.
The National Center for Public Policy Research, a D.C.based conservative think thank, arrived at the meeting demanding that the board not pursue any environmental initiatives that hurt the company's bottom line. The group's proposal would have required Apple to disclose the costs of such initiatives and to be more transparent about its relationship with "certain trade associations and business organizations promoting the amorphous concept of environmental sustainability."
Cook's response to this squawking was priceless: "We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive," and reiterated Steve Jobs' founding vision for Apple: "We want to leave the world better than we found it."
And if the NCPPR wasn't unhappy enough with that, he went on, saying they could just leave. "If you want me to do things only for [return on investment] reasons," he said, "you should get out of this stock."
Oh sah-nap!
Needless to say, the NCPPR did not take the rejection well, throwing a tantrum by tossing themselves on the floor, stomping their feet and threatening to hold their breath until they turned blue…like typical toddlers.