Sustianability

8 Pages 1961 Words

ples…; and that what is good for business is almost always bad for nature…...; commerce is revealed for what it is: a system of production and distribution that left biological life out of its equation.” What can be done to make corporate pirates more aware of the importance of making biological consideration a working counterpart within the practice of commerce? (p.57, para.1)

6.“There is a profound contradiction between the transformative values that America was founded on and the power wielded by the corporations.” Why is government so tolerant of corporations, allowing them to gain so much money yet fail to realize that all the money they can tax will not repair the damage to the environment, where we will ALL cease to co-exist once we have gone too far (and we have)? (p.105, para.1)

7.“We may spend an hour in church or temple every week, but we spend forty or sixty hours at the workplace, in a job that demands and receives the greatest devotion we bestow on anyone or anything outside of (and sometimes including) our families. Work or some form of collective labor has always been defining element of society, but never before has the output of work become the dominant organizing principle of the world’s peoples.” Society is designed so that to survive, you must work or produce. Will we ever find a way to be so that corporations do not demand so much time from their workers and allow for less hours, more money or same benefits solely for the mental health and stability of their workers? (p.123, para.1)


8.“The ultimate purpose of business is not, or should not be, simply to make money. Nor is it mer...