Why not? They aren't forced to hide anything and can quit and whistle blow anytime they want.
Everybody makes a living off something. There's resource extraction people never been within a hundred miles of a coal mine or an oil rig. Don't see you hating them none.
OK, right after the Vice President for Corporate and Government Affairs of Friendly Oil Company puts on a hard hat and picks up a shovel that isn't all shiny and nickel-plated.
where did you get the idea it's all bottom line in my eyes.
Due respect, from your posts, petros.
Are you kidding? I worked my way through law school. You think you and your colleagues get one tenth of the crap lawyers get from every side all the time? I'll make my usual offer. $1000 to your favourite charity if you can come up with a lawyer joke I ain't already heard a hundred times.
No, this conversation is about you. You're interesting to me. Consider that a compliment.
Will you accept that activists sometimes have a point? That if it weren't for their rabble-rousing, the money guys would ignore the enviro scientists completely (this goes back to my question of whether you think the extraction companies would reclaim the land out of the goodness of their hearts if they were completely unregulated).
I don't care who they work for. Never did. In many ways the guys within the system are far more effective than the yapping "activists." But again, I've heard you heap plenty of contempt on the environmental activists, and I've never heard you heap similar contempt on the corporate lobbyists trying to weaken environmental standards to the point where they can do their extraction thing and then move on, leaving a toxic dump behind.
No, I'm not going to date you.
Umm. . . the fact that they did exactly that until they were required by law to reclaim the land? And the fact that in countries where they are not so required, they leave the land desolate and poisoned (like Nigeria)?
So, somebody talks bad about you, and you're going to pack it in and stomp off in a huff?
They hire environmental scientists because it is the law, not because they have a conscience. The bottom line is all that matters to capitalists. People rise to the position of CEO because they are sociopaths and psychopaths. They have no conscience, empathy or sympathy for anybody. They are ruthless and if they tell an environmental scientist in their employ to bury evidence, it gets buried or they are fired or black balled.
Not everything but some and because they are afraid to lose their cushy jobs like everybody else. They have mortgages and are in dept like everybody else - they are wage slaves to the bank.
Only for capitalists. Not so much for wage slaves.
