Greenwash of the Week: Is Wal-Mart Selling Greenwash?
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I love wal-mart.
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Great video you two!
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@jhtrico1850 no.. even going to walmart alone is contributing to the destruction of the environment because of the air pollution caused by your car :P .. unless you go to walmart by bicycle then ure good :) !
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ah..... Yes!
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"HAVE" to go to Wal-Mart?
Don't buy into it!!
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Are you guys serious bout going green to? Or just looking to join the Wal Mart hate movement.
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Well you could choose to go to Wal-Mart and not destroy the environment. I have to go to Wal-Mart because I live right next to it, it's got more stuff than Krogers, and it's cheaper. Oh, and I like to eat and not die and other human stuff.
With Wal-Mart actively pursuing things that are less "detrimental" to the environment, why are people being pompous?
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That's a fallacious arguement called a false choice. Some of us would choose not destroying the earth and also not moving in with baboons.
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Well, the point they're making is that while wal-mart may be behaving less detrimentally towards the environment, wal-mart is in fact still behaving very badly towards it. It would be like if I went out and ran to the end of my block, and then walked back in here and told you I was a runner. You'd probably say I was full of shit. Wal-mart saying it's environmentally friendly makes wal-mart full of shit. The people making these videos need to enroll in a JC microeconomics course though.
DanielBrPorter 3 years ago
I'm curious which part of the microeconomics curriculum you think would be helpful in this case
RANVideo 3 years ago
What are we supposed to do? Not buy anything that we need? Collapse the economy?
jhtrico1850 3 years ago
The point is that changing your buying habits is not going to save us. We actually have to organize and demand that governments and corporations like Wal-Mart adopt dramatically better policy, on a large scale, in a hurry.
RANVideo 3 years ago
I once tabled for the rainforests...ages ago, it seems. But, you seem so enthusiastic and refreshing.
But, I must opine:
Even if Wal-Mart half-heartedly goes green, they can save more energy and more rainforests than 1000 eco-groups protesting every day for 10 years. (Well, maybe not on that! Taking to the streets to protest is quite powerful sometimes)
Part II to follow.
paulthekind 3 years ago
Well, that's why groups like RAN campaign to get large, influential companies like Home Depot and financiers like Citi and Bank of America to adopt policies that abate environmental destruction on a large scale -- so our street-level organizing, ideally, results in big change across an industry. But making your policies slightly less destructive does not necessarily mean that your company is "green."
RANVideo 3 years ago