Wow!!!!!! GM met it's 2010 climate change gas goals I bet!!!!!!!

[NNadir]

Back in 2007, we had a great, great, great, great, upbeat, "Don't worry be happy!!!!!!" thread about GM's "by 2010" promise to reduce it's climate impact by 40 percent.

I love "percent talk" and am thus thrilled to recall that wonderful "by 20xx" kind of thread where, in this case, "xx" is 10, in case you have trouble with numbers.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x89362">GM Pledges to Reduce CO2 Emissions by 40 Percent

Earlier this year, GM went a long way to meeting its "pledge" by closing more than 20 plants, and laying of tens of thousands of workers. Why I bet if you look, the "pledge" has already been met, and several months ahead of schedule too!

All I can say is "Heckuva Job!!!!!!!!"

"Heckuva Job!"

And see, you were questioning your climate committment just because you can't afford a new solar McMansion with an outlet in the circular drive way for your new electric Tesla...

I just love the car CULTure.

[bananas]

1. "GM surpassed its 2010 target in 2008 by reducing CO2 emissions by 44%."

http://www.gm.com/corporate/responsibility/partners/environment/index.jsp

Climate Leadership Partnership. In 2002, General Motors joined the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Climate Leaders Partnership, a voluntary program that challenges its partners to set an aggressive, corporate-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goal. As part of the program, partners create an entity-wide inventory management plan and agree to a third-party audit of their GHG emissions to track progress toward their reduction goal. GM's original commitment to the program was to reduce CO2 emissions by 10% from its North American Facilities from 2000-2005. GM's new target, developed with the EPA, is a 40% reduction in CO2 emissions from 2000 - 2010. GM, the only automotive manufacturer founding partner of the program, was the first partner to surpass its 2005 target by the end of 2003. GM surpassed its 2010 target in 2008 by reducing CO2 emissions by 44%. This reduction was largely due to energy efficiency and energy conservation measures, and GM's growing use of renewable energy sources for facility electricity and heating requirements. (http://www.epa.gov/stateply/)

[kristopher]

2. K&R

How about some assistance getting this to the greatest page?

[NecklyTyler]

3. K&R #5, its on its way

[NMDemDist2]

5. the unrec trolls have hit, i got it back to 4 n/t

[madokie]

4. For you I did it #5

I feel soiled but I can shower. :-)

[NNadir]

6. Regrettably, most of humanity has no access to clean water and thus

can't shower.

Consider yourself lucky, if in fact, you consider yourself. (That, I think, knowing the territory, is not a good bet.)

I feel intellectually soiled by having to confront people who endlessly and myopically hold forth on subjects about which they clearly know nothing.

I confront these people because of my oft stated opinion that "ignorance kills." Thus when I consider myself I claim, maybe in a self serving way, that my arguments are moral arguments.

Some people shower me with abuse of course - all the while complaining loudly that I am abusive - but no one can hold a reasonable view without being confronted by the unreasonable, and if I couldn't take the slime, I certainly wouldn't hang out with car CULTists in grease land, would I? I most definitely feel I give as good as I get.

But I do, for all my personal difficulties, recognize that I am extremely privileged because I can turn on the tap and clean water will come out, at least if one ignores the TCE that is found in 30% of US water, including mine.

There is no justifiable reason that I have been born into this privilege and others have no hope of ever realizing it.

Much of that TCE comes from degreasers used in garages, and the rest comes from bourgeois brats dry cleaning their clothes. (For the record, hypocrite that I am, I have my suits dry cleaned even though I do understand in some detail, the chemistry of the situation.)

Have a nice evening.