The Misleading Environmental Responsibility Imposed by Corporations
"Concentrate his mind upon the remembered Earth"
“Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, and dwell upon it.”
Yosemite National Park, United States
In his quote regarding the conservation of the environment, Navarre Scott Momaday is correct, and the fact that it is correct is and should be exceedingly troubling to all those that care for our Earth. Still, it should be equally alarming for all of us that inhabit it. The conservation of anything is disparaged, as Momaday says. As for the environment, there is an incredible and unparalleled lack of care, dignity, integrity, responsibility, and care from the members of the economic ruling class that are the primary contributors to the destruction of the planet and the deterioration of our collective wellbeing.
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, China
The Carbon Majors Report, published in collaboration with the Climate Accountability Institute, found that on the subject of climate change, just “100 companies are responsible for 71% of GHG emissions.” all of which and their processes are headed, controlled, and sustained by the far upper crust of society. The people who are responsible for this ecological crisis are most certainly not dining this for “the greater good,” nor are they doing this for the good or for the sake of their underpaid and unrepresented workers, and they are certainly not destroying the planet for the needs of the people. The men who run these systems do not care about any of these things. All they care about is the collective greed run by profit and capital, and today they have the money and power to continue this sick cycle. This is the guiding principle no matter how many wondrous coral reefs are destroyed, no matter how many vast and lustrous forests are decapitated from the Earth, no matter how many noxious fumes are pumped into the air turning our crystal blue skies to a haunting orange, the people at the top do not care, they will not take responsibility, they have the wealth to avoid the struggles that will come with the destruction of our planet, and they have proven that no matter how much proof there is of their damages, given the opportunity their greed will not stop.
Victoria Falls, Zambia & Zimbabwe
One word in this quote that, in particular, speaks to me is the word “integrity.” In this instance, this word speaks to me concerning all the performative acts that these terrorists against nature conjure in an attempt to hide from the public what they are doing. Shell will have advertising with polar bears, BP(British Petroleum) will create websites to track your “personal” “Carbon Footprint,” corporate lumber companies will have tree mascots, Nestlé will preach sustainability as they use slave labor and steal water supplies only to resell it for profit, and the world’s wealthy will zealously lecture poorer countries about the dangers of fossil fuels—after devouring and guzzling massive amounts of new gas, coal, and oil from their private jets. As for integrity, it’s clear as day that these ecologically irresponsible companies have none. The most insulting thing of all is how these people of power push the blame, whether that be to other companies or other nations, but most slanderous of all is how they push the blame on the everyman and to the members of the working class. They do this in many ways, by pressuring recycling to an insane degree when all of that plastic just ends up in various countries in the Global South unused, they switch to performative paper straws that do close to nothing, and they push the everyman to buy and consume far more expensive and “humane” products all to prove and gesture and push the insidious lie that the average person is in any way responsible for the brunt of this catastrophe. And this lie is nothing close to the truth.
Denali National Park and Preserve, United States
The key problem with contemporary environmental conservation is the clear lack of responsibility not on the part of the unrepresented lower, working, and middle classes but instead by the overwhelming and vast majority of corporations and billionaires who proliferate the further expansion and the commodification of the death of our planet. Stopping climate change will never be “Good Business,” and until these people and power are either stopped, restrained, or gutted, this crescendoing cycle of destruction will continue until it is far too late.
Iguazu Falls, Brazil
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Komodo National Park, Indonesia
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