Re: How to Challenge Corporate Power and Fight the Real Source of Pollution.

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Green Glossary: Eco-Blame



By Mickey Z.


Wed Feb 4, 2009 17:14




While riding the NYC subway, I saw an ad urging us-threatening us by law actually-to recycle in the name of saving the environment. It's amazing how the media, the corporations, and the government present ecology and energy conservation something that we should be doing. It's as if the earth would be in wondrous condition if we just didn't shirk our recycling duties.

Sure, when your planet is as polluted as ours, there's plenty of eco-blame to go around. But let's get serious here. Huge multi-national corporations ravage the earth every single second of every single day in search of their beloved profits. The average Joe (or Joanne) can only be blamed for this because of his or her silent complicity. The real offenders are going unpunished by deflecting all the eco-blame to us.

In his review of Derrick Jensen's book, As The World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial, Richard Marcus writes: "Even if every single person in the United States were to change all their light-bulbs to fluorescent, cut the amount they drive in half, recycle half of their household waste, inflate their tire pressure to increase gas mileage, use low flow shower heads and wash clothes in lower temperature water, adjusts their thermostats two degrees up or down depending on the season, and plant a tree, it would result in a one time, 21 percent reduction in carbon emissions."

So, yes, let's all do our part.but more importantly, let's not forget where the real eco-blame lies. If we want a cleaner planet, we have to hold the corporations accountable. Tweet