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Politics, Aug 14th, 2010,
Workers in China don’t just have to fight ruthless parent corporations, oppressive subcontractors and draconian labor laws. They also have our insatiable desire for newer, cheaper and more cutting edge goods to contend with. Chinese factory workers, who build our mobile phones, laptop computers and plastic knickknacks, have long worked in conditions tantamount to slave labor. They often live in dormitories located on the factory grounds, which sleep ten to a room, where they are forbidden to cook, to have sex, listen to music or take showers. Talking is not allowed while working and breaks are non-existent. Shifts are around…
Tags: China, computers, corporations, factory, government, Hari, Independent, Johann, labor, phones, slave, Western, workers
Climate Change, Pollution, Jun 26th, 2010,
It was only a matter of time before oil started raining down from the sky. It’s just ironic that it’s happening after we’ve past peak oil. It’s as if God is saying, ‘you want it that bad? Here, have some!’ I’m just waiting for someone to call it a renewable natural resource – after all, it’s plant-based and falling from the sky. Geo-engineering has unintentionally made this possible. In all seriousness, the whole ‘it’s raining oil in Louisiana’ scare comes from a shaky YouTube video in which it appears to be raining oil on a Louisiana street, but it could…
Tags: amazon, BP, Corexit 9500, dispersant, Ecuador, EPA, evaporate, Hari, Johann, Louisiana, oil, rain, raining, TOXIC
Climate Change, Nature, Politics, May 28th, 2010,
Journalist Johann Hari is once again on the attack against the ties that bind environmental groups and big polluting corporations. (It’s all about money, in case you didn’t know). In a recent article for the Independent, Hari treads similar ground as he did in his piece for The Nation entitled ‘The Wrong Kind of Green’. Hari is consistently polemical and comes from a strong standpoint, but as usual, he makes very good points that hardly any other journalists are talking about. It has taken two decades for this relationship to become the norm among the big green organisations. Imagine this…
Tags: activists, corporations, deforest, environmental, Green, Hari, Independent, Johann
Climate Change, Politics, Mar 10th, 2010,
Major environmental groups are ignoring climate scientists while lining their pockets with money from big polluters and the fossil fuel industry. That is the gist of Johann Hari’s thorough piece of journalism in The Nation, entitled ‘The Wrong Kind of Green’. Apparently some seriously big players in the environmental movement are helping to greenwash big business – and receiving hefty sums of money to do so. The guilty parties include Conservation International, the Sierra Club, and the WWF. They are funded by some of the usual suspects in Shell and British Petroleum, but also by Swedish furniture giant IKEA, among…
Tags: big business, carbon, environmental, greenwash, greenwashing, groups, Hari, industry, Johann, nation, polluters
