The recent decisions by Google, Facebook, and Yahoo to abandon the American Legislative Exchange Council herald a larger trend that shows businesses abandoning climate denial and acknowledging the need for a low-carbon transition, Sinclair suggests. “Climate denial is on the way to transitioning from an acceptable ‘alternative’ position, to a poisonous, untouchable social disease like racism, apartheid, spousal abuse, or kiddie pornography, and its practitioners will be remembered in those terms,” he writes. “Last week’s climate march and UN meeting on climate issues became an important showcase for corporations to weigh in and acknowledge what the science has been telling us for decades,” thereby creating “running room for politicians who want to find their own way out of the climate denial or climate agnostic ghetto.” (h/t to Smarter Shift Content Marketing Advisor Karen Irving for pointing us to this story)
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