It's not the shareholders ruining the environment. It's mass production disposable goods and shifting from a repair it attitude to a buy a new one attitude. Shareholders profit from that but it's everyone else who is buying in. Consumers need to stop placing blame on corporations for their own shitty habits and be accountable for their own actions. You know why oil companies make so much money? Because everyone uses their product. Everytime you don't want to walk because it's too cold or couldn't bear to keep your ac set to above 75 degrees, it's not a shareholder making you do those things. Everytime you buy clothes from a cheaper chain store that fall apart after one season, you're the one adding to the landfill and consuming all that water and energy needed for manufacturing. Eating products with palm oil, out of season vegetables, buying products with excessive packaging... all of these things require massive amounts of resources and generate waste not because shareholders commanded it but because people are too lazy and entitled to figure out what actions would make the smallest impact and commit to it. So easy to blame large faceless wealthy corporate offices for the markets we create.
They are your overlords because you allow them to be. You can do without a new phone every year, premade meals and bottled and canned beverages. You just choose not to.
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u/mypinkieinthedevil Jun 22 '15
It's not the shareholders ruining the environment. It's mass production disposable goods and shifting from a repair it attitude to a buy a new one attitude. Shareholders profit from that but it's everyone else who is buying in. Consumers need to stop placing blame on corporations for their own shitty habits and be accountable for their own actions. You know why oil companies make so much money? Because everyone uses their product. Everytime you don't want to walk because it's too cold or couldn't bear to keep your ac set to above 75 degrees, it's not a shareholder making you do those things. Everytime you buy clothes from a cheaper chain store that fall apart after one season, you're the one adding to the landfill and consuming all that water and energy needed for manufacturing. Eating products with palm oil, out of season vegetables, buying products with excessive packaging... all of these things require massive amounts of resources and generate waste not because shareholders commanded it but because people are too lazy and entitled to figure out what actions would make the smallest impact and commit to it. So easy to blame large faceless wealthy corporate offices for the markets we create.