Friends of the Earth fire back at corportate 'greenwashing'

Metro News ^ | April 5th | ROMINA MCGUINNESS

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Paul de Clerk, Coordinator of the Corporate Campaign at Friends of the Earth International, describes greenwashing as “the practice of companies disingenuously spinning their products and policies as environmentally friendly.”

Companies launch cleverly-angled advertising campaigns convincing consumers with claims that are at best vague, unsubstantiated, and irrelevant -- for example, “CFC free,” even though they are illegal. At worst, the claims are completely untrue or plain bizarre (organic cigarettes- seriously?)

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Heh! Greenwashing. The whole entire global warming con-job is a form of greenwashing!

[cripplecreek]

“Once you price CO2 and put a price on it, you find, as you would with any other product, it tends to be rationed. We as a people on this planet have lived under the false concept that air and water were free. And we’ve learned with a planet of 7 billion people, that we have to ration these precious goods. And the good old price system is the best way to do it.”

Richard Sandor, father of the carbon market.

[donna]

Years ago I can remember when everything was “new lemon scented”.

[steelyourfaith]

It is regrettable that corporations market in support of the agenda of the left. See what good it does them? For the ecotards hatred of capitalism trumps corporations going green. Given a purchase choice, personally I will avoid buying green.

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Right Wing Assault]

Buy no-calorie Eviangonzales bottled water, in plastic bottles made from naturally occurring organic fossil oil! Contains no cholesterol or trans-fatty acids! And save the Earth!! Please drive responsibly on your way to the store.

[WVKayaker]

Click it or ticket!

[bert]

......Greenwashing....

Ha. Greenwashing is brainwashing. The young females who think their place in life is to make a difference are terminally stupid and will buy anything. They eat up the green crap because they can make a difference essentially doing nothing but think they are acting.

[seemoAR]

The whole “green” advertising campaign is meant to sell inferior products at inflated prices.

P.T. Barnum- “There’s a sucker born every minute”.

[bert]

.........in plastic bottles made from naturally occurring organic fossil oil......

Weekend before last, I did just that. At a sandwich shop across the street from the Duke campus I was served tea in a clear plastic glass claiming to be green and made from ecofriendly plastic

[dalereed]

I try to avoid all products that claim to be green or environmentally friendly!!!

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Corporations need to get off the green movement.

Green is the new red.

And red is anti-capitalism and anti-free-market.

All these corporations need to do is point out what Bjorn Lomberg has pointed out, that the air and water has gotten 30% cleaner every 10 years for the past 3 decades... BECAUSE OF CAPITALISM.

And that China — a statist-run nation — is one of the worst polluters on the planet.

[Graybeard58]

I quit buying Windex recently, when I noticed that they went "green". Generic works just as well.

My local W-M sells only Eveready hearing aid batteries (That fit my hearing aids) and they are "green", they are also more expensive and don't last as long,

"Waste Management", a garbage pick up service has green ads on tv. What I found was another waste service that's excellent and they charge about $25 per quarter less.

I avoid buying anything that's hyped as "green", when possible.

[majormaturity]

As I stated in an earlier post, the entire carbon market fraud is just a way for Goldman Sachs and others to have another commodity (carbon credits) to broker and make a market in (i.e., make money from). Truth be realized, air and water ARE free, but this dolt wants to get everybody thinking that they aren’t so that the sheeples will gladly do their part to save the planet - all the while lining these guys’ pockets with billions of our money.