Greenwashing

Many of us like to talk the talk, but how many of us walk the talk? Are companies any different? The CEO’s and bosses of large and small companies usually have to answer to their shareholders, employees and others, like their husbands wives and kids. They have been taught that they are supposed to earn the most dollars from the sale of their products. If they don’t society will shun them, and make them outcasts. People in the U.S. are brought up from the earliest times of their youth to make dollars. If they don’t, no one will love them or theyt will be considered losers. 

So is it any surprise that a company will do whatever it can to make more money? Will any of us pay a company just to be good citizens? Can our society find it within themselves to fight against the staus quo?

We can complain all we want about “greenwashing” but it won’t do any good until people start to really pay attention to what they buy and from whom.

There are people out there selling things that are not greenwashed, they are not easy to find but you can. Also it never hurts to let the manufacturer of your favorite product to know how you feel. It’s not easy and is usually a vain effort, but at least you can say you gave it your best.