Environment
Feb. 18th, 2010 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingersEven better, and just to show that buses come in threes, and all of our disasters will happen simultaneously.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/18/worlds-top-firms-environmental-damage
"The cost of pollution and other damage to the natural environment caused by the world's biggest companies would wipe out more than one-third of their profits if they were held financially accountable, a major unpublished study for the United Nations has found."
Oh come on capitalism, you're just not trying hard enough. If the profit motive is everything, surely we could have more profit, even if at the cost of more pollution and environmental damage.
Nasty, stupid, short-sighted parasite damaging the host: no wonder humans are lined up for extinction. After, of course, we've killed off everything else first. Except the cockroaches, obviously.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/18/primates-extinction-red-list
Bliss. Let us now celebrate humans: stupid, polluting, and far too many of 'em. Let us praise their ability to foul their own nest. I'm sure we can do worse if we try just a little harder. We could all go out and kill something rare to prove our ascendency. Or pour oil over a beach. Or drop nasty chemicals into a river.
It must be obvious that we could do a bit more. Not much it must be said, but just that little bit of extra effort that will lead inexorably to extinction. After all, if you've built the system to do it as a by product, it would be a shame to waste the opportunity.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/18/worlds-top-firms-environmental-damage
"The cost of pollution and other damage to the natural environment caused by the world's biggest companies would wipe out more than one-third of their profits if they were held financially accountable, a major unpublished study for the United Nations has found."
Oh come on capitalism, you're just not trying hard enough. If the profit motive is everything, surely we could have more profit, even if at the cost of more pollution and environmental damage.
Nasty, stupid, short-sighted parasite damaging the host: no wonder humans are lined up for extinction. After, of course, we've killed off everything else first. Except the cockroaches, obviously.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/18/primates-extinction-red-list
Bliss. Let us now celebrate humans: stupid, polluting, and far too many of 'em. Let us praise their ability to foul their own nest. I'm sure we can do worse if we try just a little harder. We could all go out and kill something rare to prove our ascendency. Or pour oil over a beach. Or drop nasty chemicals into a river.
It must be obvious that we could do a bit more. Not much it must be said, but just that little bit of extra effort that will lead inexorably to extinction. After all, if you've built the system to do it as a by product, it would be a shame to waste the opportunity.
