“We Call If Life” I Call It Bad Business

By Nick Aster | May 22nd, 2006 4 Comments

If you havn’t seen the mindboggling advertisements put out by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, watch the video below. CEI, funded by numerous companies – notably ExxonMobile, has produced these ads to make people belive that there is, in fact, no climactic crisis on the globe at all. The ads are so bad, they look like deliberate parodies.

I almost feel sorry for Exxon. They’ve got so much money right now they really don’t seem to know what to do with it. While BP and Shell continue to accept the facts about peak oil and global warming, slowly and visibly tranistioning themselves to a post-oil world by investing in solar and other technologies, ExxonMobile and other myopic corporations continue to blindly fight like stubborn mules. In ten or fifteen years, unless ExxonMobile gets a clue, we’re going to see BP and Shell picking apart its remains, and deservedly so.

4 Comments

« Previous post:

Put “An Inconvenient Truth” On Your Calendar

» Next post:

Experimental River Turbines May Help Power NYC

Categorized: Greenwashing|

http://www.organicarchitect.com Eric Corey Freed
On the CEI website, they call themselves the “leading environmental think tank” while in the same breath referring to Global Warming as “alleged.” It must be what it was like in the Middle Ages when Columbus said the world was round; or when Copurnicus said the Sun was the Center of the Universe. The fear based nuts tried to stop them as well.
It makes you think: what great ideas were squelched by these kinds of fear and power based forces?
How much is human progress slowed by fear and ignorance?
Anonymous
Or like when environmentalists warned us about the “population bomb”. Or how the world would run out of fossil fuels by the year 2000. Or how pollution would cause an imminent Ice Age in our lifetimes.
Anonymous
They should stick marketers in a room with 100% life.
Anonymous
@#2: Well, in the end, population growth, or any kind of growth is unsustainable. 1% population growth over a thousand years: 1.2e14 people, enough to fill the _volume_ of the earth about ten times.

Where We’re Going

Have your event listed here.

Webinar: Feb 17
Greening Stonyfield Farm:
As a consultant with Stonyfield Farm for the past 12 years, Switzer Fellow Tim Greiner will discuss efforts to broaden and deepen sustainability within the company. He will discuss the company's efforts to track its environmental impacts, barriers the company had to overcome.

Webinar: Feb 29
Product Scorecards for Sustainability:
Product scorecards that detail and evaluate environmental and sustainability aspects of products are increasingly adopted by leading companies. This webinar covers the best practices in this area and a case study by Seventh Generation.

NY: Mar 19-20
Wall Street Green:
The longest running and most comprehensive environmental market event in the industry. The Wall Street Green Summit covers cutting edge content, industry developments and features the practitioners and the leaders of tomorrow.

Bay Area: Mar 22-23
GRI Certified Training:
Demand for sustainability experts is growing rapidly as companies look for proven professionals. For companies, GRI trained employees mean faster implementations and better use of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Framework. Join our partner ISOS group for this two day session. Early bird discounts apply!

SF: Mar 26-28
Cleantech Forum San Francisco:
The 2012 Cleantech Forum San Francisco will mark the 10th anniversary of Cleantech Forums, the annual gathering of the global clean technology innovation community. Our theme this year is “The Power of Global Partnerships,” an exploration of how strategic relationships are playing an ever more important role in the future of clean technology. For a $300 Discount use code "VIPofTriplePundit " More Info.

SF: April 10-12
Navigating the American Carbon World:
The must-attend event for professionals in the carbon landscape. Over the past decade, NACW has consistently provided informative content, thoughtful discussions and outstanding opportunities for collaboration.

Have your event listed here.