Saturday, July 16, 2011

New Zealand: Greed is good, as long as it's green

Click here to access article by Sue Bradford from Pundit. 
Big business is driven by the imperative to maximise profits for its shareholders, which means continually pushing for more – more resource extraction, higher margins from those whose labour it uses and more pollution, all often just shifted from one part of the world to another.

No amount of "greening" of the nature of this growth takes away from the fundamental fact that this planet cannot sustain infinite growth.