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I Don't Buy Wal-mart's Products or Its B.S.

Wal-mart, like all large corporations, is all about making money. If, and only if, doing something good for the environment helps its bottom line, Wal-mart will do it. Otherwise, it won't. It saves the company money to reduce the amount of fuel it consumes, so it strives to make its trucks more fuel efficient. It doesn't save it money to pay living wages, provide affordable health insurance to employees, or produce its products in a country that has strong environmental and labor laws, so it doesn't.

Taking a few positive environmental steps (when it is beneficial to the company) while simultaneously causing great environmental devastation does not constitute a green business model.

Here is a recent example that shows just how shallow the company's commitment is to being green: Wal-mart is now trying to expand its operations into India. India is a vast land of small, independent bizarres and markets. Every street is a market. Each day, hawkers bring locally grown organic vegetables to peoples' doorsteps in carts that use no fossil fuel and generate no emissions. They also sell slippers, saris, plastic toys, children's clothes and a host of other consumer goods. This is an integral part of the Indian culture and provides employment to over 100 million people. Wal-mart is trying to put all of these people out of business and replace them with a first world energy intensive retail model. This will increase the carbon emissions from India's retail sector exponentially and destroy the livelihoods of tens of millions of people. Does this sound like a green company to you?

If they started using CFL bulbs in hell in order to free up more energy to do evil, would that make Satan an environmentalist? Would you shop there?On Don't let Wal-Mart's greenish diversions distract you posted 1 year, 9 months ago 9 Responses