honestly promoting 'green' be damned

Companies going green may create environmental domino affect …by Katherine Ling May 29, 2007… EXCERPTED
WASHINGTON— It seems a month does not pass without Wal-Mart announcing another environmentally friendly initiative. This month the giant retailer declared it will offer compact fluorescent light bulbs made with 33 percent less mercury. The energy efficient, 10-year lifespan bulbs are more environmentally benign and could help Wal-Mart sell its goal of 100 million compact fluorescent bulbs by 2008. Over the past year, Wal-Mart has announced the purchase of solar generating projects, sustainable seafood and produce, and the creation of a packaging scorecard that tracks suppliers’ products for recycled material and emissions. The scorecard will influence Wal-Mart’s purchasing decisions starting in 2008.

Analyzed against a backdrop of vicious predatory economic policies it is impossible to see Wal-Mart other than an economic piranha. Its employment policies are border line slavery, wherein they go out of their way to deny reasonable health insurance to all their thousands of employees. They work hand in glove with Bush’s – NLRB to deny the right to employees to organize to enable them to bargain for more equitable working conditions. Wal-Mart exerts inordinate economic pressure on selected community in which to build its “super” stores thereby further reducing competition.

Wal-Mart’s attention to “green” is strictly bottom line driven and not the result of an honest adoption of a “holistic” approach to business. Were there not significant tax incentives attached to their “green” actions, Wal-Mart most assuredly would not be entertaining endorsing any “green” action.

The article is correct ... “the scorecard will influence Wal-Mart’s purchasing decisions starting in 2008” … and those decisions will be solely bottom line driven, honesty to promoting a “green” environment be damned.