19-06-2010, 03:58 PM
As Hayward says in his oh-so-folksy-CEO-way, BP's "primary purpose in life was not to save the world."
Indeed, with corporation bosses - epitomized by Wall Street's darling and GE destroyer Jack Welch - eager to maximize short term profit at any cost, multinationals don't give a flying fuck about the planet, or 99.9% of its fauna and flora.
The green manifestos of multinational corporations have always been facades - pure PR spin to enable "ethical investment" from pension funds, churches and the like.
Global market capitalism, with regulators bought and owned by multinationals, is fundamentally incompatible with the health of our blue planet.
About all that is currently unknown is the scale of the Gulf of Mexico catastrophe. :mad:
Indeed, with corporation bosses - epitomized by Wall Street's darling and GE destroyer Jack Welch - eager to maximize short term profit at any cost, multinationals don't give a flying fuck about the planet, or 99.9% of its fauna and flora.
The green manifestos of multinational corporations have always been facades - pure PR spin to enable "ethical investment" from pension funds, churches and the like.
Global market capitalism, with regulators bought and owned by multinationals, is fundamentally incompatible with the health of our blue planet.
About all that is currently unknown is the scale of the Gulf of Mexico catastrophe. :mad:
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war