<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Chevron runs ad attacking Goldman Prize winner]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Delay And Deny http://www.grist.org/article/if-loving-the-earth-isnt-enough-hating-chevron-will-do/ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:30:01 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/if-loving-the-earth-isnt-enough-hating-chevron-will-do/1 Chevron Is The Monestary of the 21st Century


In some sense, Chevron and other corporations have become the new monasteries.   They are the beacons of truth in a sea of ignorance spawned by Al Gore, during this, the Dark Age of Climatology.

Eventually, as people wise up and do the real science, scholars may re-emerge from the oil companies to start a new Renaissance.

Possibly the best Alternative Energy blog I read: New Energy and Fuel


]]> Chevron Is The Monestary of the 21st Century


In some sense, Chevron and other corporations have become the new monasteries.   They are the beacons of truth in a sea of ignorance spawned by Al Gore, during this, the Dark Age of Climatology.

Eventually, as people wise up and do the real science, scholars may re-emerge from the oil companies to start a new Renaissance.

Possibly the best Alternative Energy blog I read: New Energy and Fuel


]]> Comment #2 by Erik Hoffner http://www.grist.org/article/if-loving-the-earth-isnt-enough-hating-chevron-will-do/ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:56:23 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/if-loving-the-earth-isnt-enough-hating-chevron-will-do/2 typical

That takes some guts, or a complete lack of perspective, to attack these Prize winners.

This award will only turn the heat further up on Chevron, and they obviously don't like it. But to draw even further interest to their untenable position boggles the mind.

Erik

The Orion Grassroots Network: 1,200+ grassroots groups working for conservation & more

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That takes some guts, or a complete lack of perspective, to attack these Prize winners.

This award will only turn the heat further up on Chevron, and they obviously don't like it. But to draw even further interest to their untenable position boggles the mind.

Erik

The Orion Grassroots Network: 1,200+ grassroots groups working for conservation & more

]]> Comment #3 by moirakb http://www.grist.org/article/if-loving-the-earth-isnt-enough-hating-chevron-will-do/ Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:31:00 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/if-loving-the-earth-isnt-enough-hating-chevron-will-do/3 Chevron's Amazon abu Ghraib

Marke Fiore just created a great new flash animation about chevron:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdJ9W39HdDU

Chevron just hired a lawyer who worked for the Dept. of Defense who resigned after it was clear he "crafted policies" that led to the abuse at Abu Ghraib. Can they get any worse, really?


]]> Chevron's Amazon abu Ghraib

Marke Fiore just created a great new flash animation about chevron:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdJ9W39HdDU

Chevron just hired a lawyer who worked for the Dept. of Defense who resigned after it was clear he "crafted policies" that led to the abuse at Abu Ghraib. Can they get any worse, really?


]]> Comment #4 by mwildfire http://www.grist.org/article/if-loving-the-earth-isnt-enough-hating-chevron-will-do/ Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:37:51 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/if-loving-the-earth-isnt-enough-hating-chevron-will-do/4 so why did Commondreams play along yesterday?

I clicked on a link out of curiosity, labled "Goldman Prize Marred by Controversy" only to find this story. Where is the controversy in the fact that one of the recipients has powerful enemies? Correction--ALL Goldman prize winners have powerful enemies. They don't give out that prize for highway beautification projects. So that headline made sense from only one perspective: that of the Chevron PR office. Wonder if they somehow got that story onto Commondreams and other outlets.
It's so tempting to respond with anger, contempt, disgust, moral approbation. But that's the rub: such responses are appropriate in reaction to reprehensible human choices, but corporations are not human and they are not like humans. They are like machines. They are designed to maximise profits and that's what they will continue to do, like a car with primitive radar and the gas pedal wired to the floor, oblivious to the consequences, until either we destroy them like Frankenstein's monster and the sorceror's apprentice, or they destroy the human habitat so completely that they are no longer able to parasitize their human host.

]]> so why did Commondreams play along yesterday?

I clicked on a link out of curiosity, labled "Goldman Prize Marred by Controversy" only to find this story. Where is the controversy in the fact that one of the recipients has powerful enemies? Correction--ALL Goldman prize winners have powerful enemies. They don't give out that prize for highway beautification projects. So that headline made sense from only one perspective: that of the Chevron PR office. Wonder if they somehow got that story onto Commondreams and other outlets.
It's so tempting to respond with anger, contempt, disgust, moral approbation. But that's the rub: such responses are appropriate in reaction to reprehensible human choices, but corporations are not human and they are not like humans. They are like machines. They are designed to maximise profits and that's what they will continue to do, like a car with primitive radar and the gas pedal wired to the floor, oblivious to the consequences, until either we destroy them like Frankenstein's monster and the sorceror's apprentice, or they destroy the human habitat so completely that they are no longer able to parasitize their human host.

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