Corporations Don't Care About You (Or The Planet)
Heya!
Happy Friday! I’ve come to your email bearing my latest video, three quotes, and three links. I hope you find them intriguing!
Three Quotes:
“Instead of progress towards decency in labour and environmental standards, we find ourselves in a continuing maelstrom of corporate social irresponsibility. When matched with growing inequality, it’s no wonder we’re in a new age of populism and protest, with a reflexive reaction against big corporations. Far from being responsible citizens, large corporations are increasingly dodging paying even basic taxes.”
— Andy Hira
“Always, the environment is subservient to the economy, something to be protected for the sake of the economy and its needs. Therefore, climate change is an economic risk or threat that must be managed like any other economic risk or threat.”
— Collective 20
“By refusing to risk its way of life, by rejecting the idea that the powerful might have to sacrifice for the common good, it clings to a set of social arrangements that allow it to monopolize progress and then give symbolic scraps to the forsaken—many of whom wouldn’t need the scraps if the society were working right.”
— Anand Giridharadas
Three Links:
The troubling evolution of corporate greenwashing (Guardian)
B Corp certification won't guarantee companies really care for people, planet, and profit (The Conversation)
Beyond Profit: Rethinking Corporate Social Responsibility and Greenwashing After the BP Oil Disaster (Miriam Cherry)
Hope you have a wonderful weekend,
Charlie