Gerald Maclennon's Blog - Posts Tagged "carbon-footprint"
Greta Thunberg, Environmentalist
One of my 2nd cousins is an Environmental Officer in the Swedish Army. I asked him, "What is your take on Greta Thunberg?" / His reply was, "A great human in a small body."
Indeed I do have to admire 16-year-old Greta's ability to overcome her Asperger's Syndrome (a form of autism) and speak out on issues that should matter to everyone but are just not in the limelight due to corporations that care about nothing else but their bottom line.
When my ad agency lost it's most lucrative client, I was laid-off at age 55. In applying for other creative positions, I repeatedly ran into age discrimination. Eventually out of desperation I signed on to work for Walmart and did so for 20 months. That was the worst job of my life (and I'd had about 40 up to that time).
Firsthand did I experience the heartlessness of their business philosophy. It's all about money and maintaining that bottom line: Profit is first and foremost... and human beings are just labor commodities to use and abuse and toss in the trash when they begin to stumble from overexertion.
And woe be to any employee who submits a workman's injury claim because Walmart enlists an army of shyster lawyers primed to fight to the death any injury claim no matter how small and if that doesn't work, to publicly shame the employee into dropping the claim because management will say, "This employee and his claim will reduce the amount given to all employees as a Christmas bonus." I know that's true because it happened to me.
Walmart's example has been repeatedly applauded by Forbes's Fortune 500 businesses and in the past two decades has become the model on which virtually all corporations operate.
And do they care about the earth and its environment? O' hell, no! Especially if it takes anything away from that insidious bottom line. Ergo, the Earth needs more Greta Thunberg's because the fat cats in charge don't give a flying f**k. They'll go down with the ship as long as the ship shows a good profit up to that point.
Indeed I do have to admire 16-year-old Greta's ability to overcome her Asperger's Syndrome (a form of autism) and speak out on issues that should matter to everyone but are just not in the limelight due to corporations that care about nothing else but their bottom line.
When my ad agency lost it's most lucrative client, I was laid-off at age 55. In applying for other creative positions, I repeatedly ran into age discrimination. Eventually out of desperation I signed on to work for Walmart and did so for 20 months. That was the worst job of my life (and I'd had about 40 up to that time).
Firsthand did I experience the heartlessness of their business philosophy. It's all about money and maintaining that bottom line: Profit is first and foremost... and human beings are just labor commodities to use and abuse and toss in the trash when they begin to stumble from overexertion.
And woe be to any employee who submits a workman's injury claim because Walmart enlists an army of shyster lawyers primed to fight to the death any injury claim no matter how small and if that doesn't work, to publicly shame the employee into dropping the claim because management will say, "This employee and his claim will reduce the amount given to all employees as a Christmas bonus." I know that's true because it happened to me.
Walmart's example has been repeatedly applauded by Forbes's Fortune 500 businesses and in the past two decades has become the model on which virtually all corporations operate.
And do they care about the earth and its environment? O' hell, no! Especially if it takes anything away from that insidious bottom line. Ergo, the Earth needs more Greta Thunberg's because the fat cats in charge don't give a flying f**k. They'll go down with the ship as long as the ship shows a good profit up to that point.
