They focus so heavily on automobiles that when the truth breadth of oil’s scope comes to light, suddenly panic sets in.
so buy jackets from someone else.....money talks
Incredible that people so stupid should be responsible for a large company.
Remember when North Face sued a company called South Butt?
Anyone seen the list of products that are net zero carbon from southbutt?
Good article and well worth reading.
Can’t believe it made it past the editors of Newsweek.
Thanks for posting. Sheesh.
And the kids got me a The North Face winter jacket. Green 550 model...detachable snapped fur-lined hood...built in face-mask...drawstring...4 pockets in front...one on left arm...XL / TG...warmest winter jacket i’ve ever had...made in Vietnam...MSRP $299.
VF Corp owns North Face, Vans, Dickies, Timberland - boycott them all. I hate green-washing, “woke” hypocrites.
HAHAHA! Northface deserves the beating.
I can just hear Thomas Sowell (or Milton Friedman) taking part in this conversation with the CEO of North Face:
SOWELL: Why would you refuse to brand your North Face gear with the Innovex Downhole Solutions company logo, as you advertise you will, and readily do on gear ordered by other companies.
NORTH FACE CEO: It goes against our environmental image, and we don't want to be seen as collaborating with oil companies or the implicit approval of petroleum products by doing so.
SOWELL: Really? I was just curious, how do you get your products to market? Aren't they sent to market by ships burning fossil fuels, aircraft burning fossil fuels, and trucks run on fossil fuels?
NORTH FACE CEO: We, uh, pay carbon credits to, uh...compensate...
SOWELL: I didn't know that. Can you provide the name of a company who you purchased them from?
NORTH FACE CEO: I don't have that at my fingertips...I'll, uh, have to circle back on that...
SOWELL: And don't you have factories in Communist China, who has been the biggest emitter of CO2 emissions for years? Do you purchase carbon credits to offset the pollution there?
NORTH FACE CEO: I'll have one of my aides contact you with that information. But the point is, drilling for oil is not good for the earth, and we don't want to be seen supporting oil exploration.
SOWELL: Aren't the vast majority of North Face's apparel—its hoodies, snow pants, coats and many other items in its product line, like backpacks and tents—made with polyester, polyurethane and nylon, all of which come from petroleum. Even your fancy North Face fleece jackets are made of polyester. Are you paying for carbon offsets on those as well? And even if you are, if you fight oil drilling and exploration, that will drive the cost of nearly everything in your already extremely expensive product line?
NORTH FACE CEO: We, uh...we're ah, committed to...uh, fighting corporate greed, and...global warming...
SOWELL: Ah...I see. Much like Arreck Bahlwin in "Team America"!
OMGosh! BODY SLAMMED!
Incredible counter!
Terrific post!
But do they have big coats with Gore Tex?
This is the fault of all of the PC identity politics programs in our universities.They have turned out a generation of uneducated, spoiled and indoctrinated people who have an agenda but not a clue in the world as to business reality.
A lot of them come from “elite”schools and make it to marketing because they know how to market to their similarly like minded, know nothing consumers
I like how this CEO faced the problem head on with a fight.
We have seen how important public image is to these companies. This is what fuels virtual signaling. This can also be their achilles heel.
South Butt.
There are other very good companies that even have better products and are not woke. I am just one person but I never buy from a-hole woke-tards. I feel bad for the employees because I would assume most are not virtue signaling fidiots and just want to make a living making and selling a product. Lastly on a side note,these products are mostly made by modern slave labor anyway.
The internal combustion engine has done more to clean up the environment than anything I can think of. Before the widespread use of petroleum, mountains of horsecrap fowled our water supply and contributed to typhoid epidemics.