Rio Tinto
There are too many competing forces, and I think it’s important to recognise that saving the environment, dropping carbon is almost a luxury of affluence if we see difficult economic conditions priorities to begin to change and that will put more challenges on coming up with a solution.
Tom Albanese – CEO Rio Tinto
It is people like this that are starting to convince me that I should be going into the houseboat-building industry. This comes just two months after Rio were protesting that the WWF unfairly gave their power generators zero stars in terms of positioning for a low carbon future.
Affluence is a luxury of having a functioning environment, not the other way around. No environment means no economy. Is this really that hard to understand?
Tags: climate change, Economy, Environment, rio tinto
Economy, Environment | stu | 
October 3, 2008 9:15 am
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By foster
, October 3, 2008 @ 9:25 pm
That’s it, I’m moving to Mars.
We can create a new environment and the women there have 3 boobs (I saw it in a documentary once)
By Joel
, November 21, 2008 @ 1:25 pm
Nick and I expressed that exact sentiment in 2004…
…unfortunately the spacecraft weren’t quite where we needed them to be…