Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is a Climate Change Denier

This entry was posted by Josh Monday, 4 January, 2010

Via FDL, a paragraph from the New Yorker’s extensive profile of John Mackey:

Mackey told me that he agrees with the book’s assertion that, as he put it, “no scientific consensus exists” regarding the causes of climate change; he added, with a candor you could call bold or reckless, that it would be a pity to allow “hysteria about global warming” to cause us “to raise taxes and increase regulation, and in turn lower our standard of living and lead to an increase in poverty.” One would imagine that, on this score, many of his customers, to say nothing of most climate scientists, might disagree. He also said, “Historically, prosperity tends to correlate to warmer temperatures.”

Something to keep in mind the next time you go shopping for environmentally-friendly produce.