It’s a Mad, Mad World Out There
The goals of corporatism are incompatible with the goals of ecology. No matter how we look at it, no matter how benevolent a corporation may be or how wide reaching and well meaning its CSR program, its prime directive will always be to encourage conspicuous consumption in one form or another. If by slaping on an eco-label on its product it can make a customer feel good about buying that product then that is what a corporation will do. The aim remains the same to keep us buying, to keep us consuming and most important of all to ensure we keep disposing of old stuff at regular enough intervals and replacing it all with new stuff. It is the raison d'être of the corporation. If a corporation stops it dies, like a shark that needs to keep swimming even while it sleeps, otherwise it sinks. We all saw what the cloud of volcanic ash did to the travel industry! I am not arguing that corporations are bad or evil in some way. They are a tool of capitalist society, a society that at one point...