Why are corporations such greedy, polluting, fascist gluttons on the earthen landscape these days?
460995
Rock4eva - smoking too much rock perhaps these days? Lay off the crack and other dirty drugs, you're completely sad.
324220
Many free-marketeers forget that corporations are government creations and although are treated as "legal persons", they have rights and powers beyond human beings, including limited liability for illegal and/or destructive actions.  Even libertarians and anarcho-capitalists want to limit or eliminate corporate charters.  Ultimately, it is our and our governments fault and responsibility.  I hope it's not too late.
559848
I don't think owning a business is inherently evil.  but a lot of people get SO concerned about the bottom line that they lose sight of how they are treating their employees, other companies, suppliers, maybe even ignore the law.  I think they may be getting lost in "the end justifies the means" mindset.
380032
Because we are living in a bullshit free-market world, in which all countries end up competing against each other to see which one can repress more its people and give the lowest wages to its workers so that a few hundred corporate executives can get rich by jacking off in an air-conditioned Huston office.\n\nObviously, with their blind eye torwards sweatshops, their dictatorial, totalitarian government, their ban on worker unions and free association, and their unexistant labour laws, the Chinese are "winning" this marvelous game in which we are all losers. Corporations are closing their factories in democratic, stable countries and moving to China, Indonesia or Pakistan, where, with the help and blind eye of free market governments, they can pay squat to the workers and exploit them. As long as there are no regulations against outsourcing, and the corporate bastards continue to rule the world, this process will remain.
1065438
No, they shouldn't.  They aren't people, and carry alot more influence and power than people.\n\nSee, here's the problem.  Throughout history, the potential for abuse of government and the economy was limited by the fact that a single human can only do so much damage in a day or a lifetime.\n\nCorporations do not suffer from that drawback.  Corporations can chug out efficiency 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, never sleeping, never resting, never stopping.  Corporations have more power to change the world than any entity in the history of mankind.\n\nThat kind of power does NOT warrant giving as many rights as possible to those wielding it!\n\nIt was a sad day in 1849 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations have the same rights as individuals.. it was on that day that corporations stopped being governed by the people, and became entities dedicated exclusively to profit AT ALL COSTS.  While I have no problem with profit in and of itself, it's the AT ALL COSTS part I have a problem with.\n\nAnd since corporations are only as ethical as the people who run them, that's not much guarantee that they're going to remain very ethical.\n\nEdit to the answer below me:\nWe're not talking about CEO's and executives.  We're talking about the corporation itself - the legal entity, for example, "eBay, Inc."  Not the guys running it.
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bikesamt, hi!\n\nyou must remember that every type of industry creates different kind of damage to the environment.  for example a company that uses lot of ground water (like coke, pepsi, kingfisher) causes problems with salinity in the water reservoir, and pollution seepage into the water system.\n\nthe following are common ways that companies create pollution:\n\n1. Power Consumption : large offices tend to use more power, and thus the State needs to generate more power to feed their power-hungry ways.  \n2. Traffic : with more and more employees in their premises, these people need to travel long distances, and every single vehicle creates a lot of pollution.\n3. Erosion of Green Belt : Industrial areas are often located in what used to be green cover, or green belts of forests or wasteland.  the plants and animal life are razed to make way for the corporates and their factories.\n4. Conspicuous Consumption : they make a lot of money, and pay their employees well.  these employees have a lot of money, and so spend it on other luxury goods that are not nature-friendly.  instead of man being at harmony with nature, he starts destroying it through his desire for luxury.  this is an indirect way to pollute.\n5. Sewage : large manufacturing units generate billions of litres of sewage and other pollutants that are either released into rivers, streams, lakes, oceans or the air.  this has a very adverse effect.\n6. Air-conditioning : the huge AC units required to cool offices, etc., need a lot of power, and they generate indirect pollution.  also, non-CFC based coolants are very expensive, and few companies make that investment.  CFC destroys the earth's ozone layer.\n7. Building Design : modern offices are designed with lot of glass and metal so that the buildings look "sexy".  but glass is a poor insulator, and air-conditioning needs to work for more time to maintain the temperature inside.  this creates indirect pollution.\n\nthese are the few things i could think of at the moment... \n\nhope it helped... if you need more ideas, drop me a line, and i could be able to help you out.\n\nenjoy!
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Sure! And they'd still complain about the oil companies getting rich, too. Liberals only see what they want to see; it's easier that way. So, to them, the farmers will never be rich, even if they're driving around in Bentleys and the oil companies will always be the rich, nasty villains even if their CEOs have to give up driving because they can't afford the ethanol.
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Danielcra, the right winger, is a prime example of that stunted thinking.  \n\nHe wrote that we care more about trees and birds than humans, as if trees and birds are not as important as human life.  \n\nHe and the other idiots do not realize that without birds and more importantly trees - humans will be extinct too.  \n\nIt is this narrow imbecilian thinking that is destroying the environment and may even encourage new or more virulent diseases as natural controllers/predators die off.
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Well hell, they have made a killing already.  Record high.\nThere is one thing that some people will never understand and that is that there are some Corporations throughout the world that don't give a darn about nations, peoples, only their own continued wealth.  In other words there are the haves and the have knots.  And the haves basically can bring down the economies of the world, and still have their kingdoms.  Fact is that just some of the masses these days enjoy more than the past and a bit more educated and thus see what is going on, but still are the masses of haves wanna bees.
1166633
corporations are people too.
546009
It's all deregulation and Capitalism at it's finest. The oil companies are realigning into monopoly's again. This is a crime to fair competition; because there is no competition. This always happens with a majority Republican rule, it's their view on politics. There is no trickle down theory with forced inflation's on Americans.
963566
I agree with the unique Earth bit. But the Sun is an average star in terms of heat and size, very mainstream. Western society, with its reliance on consumerism, is a drain on society, and is influencing developing countries to compete and produce these goods very cheaply, leading to increased pollution and reliance on fossil fuels. As to the long term survival of society, who knows. It seems that governments throughout the world are waiting for it to be too late before doing anything and then blaming other people.
957405
The corporate mentality is that anything is ok that reaps a profit. There is no morality at the upper levels of corporate existance. Those in the upper levels expect their subordinates to conform to the corporate ethic to the exclusion of all else. So, yes. The corporate mind in MOST corporations is contributing to the downfall of morality worldwide.
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global warming is a designer cause like so many of the other causes that are being puffed up at your local Starbucks as we speak. Of coarse we want to be smart and clean about how we live.  Try punching in global warming and you will see that the real science institutions i.e. MIT. Cal Tech. etc. have this cause under junk science.  real scientist, I don't mean phd's who are looking for easy research money, will laugh at this notion that your weed wacker is warming the planet.
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Corporateland will paint a beautiful picture hand wrapped on the necessities of what they do for you...but there's a phrase you don't hear anymore...it's called Captain of Industry...it's not spoken because it doesn't exist anymore...no one is take charge..."human resources" used to be called "the personel department"...human beings aren't a simple resource like fuel...there is no importance in this...except to line ones pocket in my opinion...
878621
Corporations are given the rights of individuals and should be held accountable by the same standards. Like all good citizens they have a responsibility to protect the environment of the communities they reside in as well as the places where their products are used. They also have a responsibility to protect their employees from environmental and workplace hazards.\n\nThey have a responsibility to their customers, employees and stockholders to operate their businesses honestly and fairly. They must avoid deception and the appearance of deception.\n\nUnfortunately corporations have accepted the rights of individuals and have avoided the responsibility portion of the formula. Corporations today have very little regard for communities they reside in.  They hide under the shield of multinationalism. They operate everywhere with responsibility to no one. They strip natural resources from countries without environment protections statutes. When they are forced to clean up their act they simply move to the next third world country. They have a total disregard for people, governments and cultures. They do the absolute minimum required. They have no regard for others.\n\nModern corporation operate for the benefit of their executives and key investors, and no one else. They routinely shift resources between corporations at the expense of the common stock holder. They have become so powerful that they manipulated governments and even instigate wars to protect their assets. Today’s corporations have become the monsters without souls and new laws need to be written to protect society from them.
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The oil companies are greedy