Stop Saving the Planet! by Jenny Price

Author:Jenny Price
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2021-03-05T00:00:00+00:00

These companies are fiddling while they burn the world—albeit dousing the fires with an occasional bucket of water.

And Save the Planeteers, EPA officials, and Earth Day festival organizers often make it all so easy.

They say, essentially, way to go, Exxon!—you’re doing something, it all saves the planet, this is a good start, we’re so encouraged that you’re trying—instead of saying, hey, Exxon, when, exactly, are you going to finally stop futzing around?

✲ Yes, we care!

How about saying, yes, Exxon, of course we care!—about what else you do and also about what you’re failing egregiously to do.

Hey, Exxon, you’ve known about climate change since at least the late 1970s, right?—and you’ve also known that plastics are remarkably difficult to recycle. You funded your scientists to conduct some of the early climate research—until the early 1990s, when you decided instead and very strategically to challenge your own results.

Maybe, just maybe, you could show some real, actual, honest-to-goodness goddamn leadership?

You could stop investing your vast resources in CEO and shareholder payouts as your ultimate priority—and start to invest substantially instead in figuring out how to change environments a lot more equitably and sustainably to make, use, and distribute clean energy for all.

You could also stop lobbying, disinforming, tax evading, and greenwashing—all from your shiny new LEED-certified offices and all as if you’re trying incredibly hard to ensure there’s no tomorrow.

Hey, Exxon and Chase, the U.S. Green Building Council has certified you as LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) trailblazers—but seriously?

Yes, you’re leading the way—on how to spread disinformation, triple down on high-polluting practices, and ramp up plastics production as plan B, in anticipation of the day when you have to stop turning oil into gasoline.

You’re showing us how companies can wring every last dollar out of making our environments (“we’re all in this together”) increasingly and terrifyingly unlivable.

Hey, let’s establish a new green building certification program, OK?—but it’ll be exclusively for the construction of corporate buildings and headquarters.

We’ll call it Green Roofs for Economic & Environmental Devastation—and your office buildings¶¶¶¶¶¶ can earn a rating of Executive Platinum, Gold Standard, or just plain Certifiable.

What, where, who, when, how much, how fast? Yes, we care!

How about saying that?

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