Slim, Tata, others advise UN's Ban on climate | Reuters
NEW YORK, June 17 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has formed an advisory group on climate change that includes Mexico's Carlos Slim, India's Ratan Tata, other business tycoons and executives from nongovernmental organizations, one member of the group said.Woolly Days: Carlos Slim: world’s first trillionaire?
It is difficult to live a day in Mexico without buying one of his products. Mexicans use electricity carried by his Condumex brand cables, drive on roads paved by his CILSA construction company firm and burn fuels pumped from his Swecomex drilling platforms. They communicate through Telmex phone lines, smoke Slim's tobacco sold under the Marlboro brand, and shop at Sears Roebuck of Mexico, a subsidiary of his Carso Group.World’s Cheapest Car: Boon or Bane? - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
Ratan Tata, the chairman of India’s Tata Group, which is poised to market the wold’s cheapest car: the Nano. Not everyone is thrilled.
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Last year, the Nobel Prize winner Rajendra Pachauri, who is head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was quoted as saying he was “having nightmares” about the car.
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"...advisory group on climate change..."
could it be Tata will "advise" the UN to promote&mandate a transition to minicars and away from large cars&SUVs ?
Yet in the end, even Tata will bite the dust: Conservation is a dead end road because it wont ever be never "enough" energy savings and "enough" efficiency for the enviros until finally everybody is car-less.
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