For the McCain empire, built on potatoes, climate change is serious business

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Kevin Carmichael: World’s largest french fry maker to spend undisclosed amount of money on green, industrial-scale farms

As a closely held company, McCain Foods Ltd. is under no obligation to be chatty. And it isn’t. The world’s biggest seller of frozen french fries has issued only eight press releases this year. When your name is on display in grocery freezers in 160 countries, you don’t need to beg for publicity.

“It seems the pace of climate change is accelerating, and not just what you read in the news, but what the people we work with are facing and what our business has to deal with,” chief executive Max Koeune told me in a telephone interview. “If you put together the big news story and what happens every day with what we do, there’s a clear connection and clear sense of urgency in moving the needle forwards and moving the actions at a very different pace.

As Canada’s political parties declared what they would do to meet the Paris commitments, and as tens of thousands of Canadians readied for climate marches, Eddy Isaacs, an executive fellow at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, published a study that concludes that “despite enthusiastic support for climate mitigation, there are many serious policy and engineering obstacles to greenhouse gas reductions by mid-century.

However, when it comes to climate change, the contrarians tend to base their forecasts on assumptions that the future will look a lot like the past. That’s fine if you are trying to decide how many cases of olive oil to buy at Costco, or even projecting the path of inflation at a central bank. “We have only one planet,” Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author who brought the frequency of black-swan events to the world’s attention, wrote in an open letter with other thinkers. “This fact radically constrains the kinds of risks that are appropriate to take at a large scale. Even a risk with a very low probability becomes unacceptable when it affects all of us — there is no reversing mistakes of that magnitude.

 

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So called climate change cannot be measured at any kind of pace. Just more cronies sucking up to radical leftists.

Odd they seems to be making tons of cash.

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