Multinational Monitor 1989 - Corporate Crime
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TEN WORST THE 10 WORST CORPORATIONS OF 1989 TEN WORST THE 10 WORST CORPORATIONS OF 1989 By Russell Mokhiber Russell Mokhiber is the editor of the Corporate Crime Reporter, an investigative weekly based in Washington, D.C. IT HAS BECOME fashionable for environmentalists and public interest groups to shy away from pointing fingers at individual corporate or executive wrongdoers and to blame "the system." Thus, in the wake of the crime at Valdez, the spill of millions of gallons of crude oil by Exxon into the waters off the coast of Alaska, Greenpeace, the world's premiere environmental group, said it would be strategically wrong for citizens to send the company a message by boycotting its products. "It would be easy," read the copy for a recent Greenpeace ad, "to blame the Valdez oil spill on one man. Or one company. Or even one industry. Too easy. Because the truth is, the spill was caused by a nation drunk on oil." So, according to Greenpeace, it is not Exxon's driving that caused the problem, it's people who drive cars. In the most fundamental sense, we are each accountable for our future. Greenpeace argues that had the oil not spilled in the Prince William Sound, it would have concluded its useful life fouling the air of the lower 48 states and eventually the entire planet, in the form of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and a host of other gases that contribute to acid rain and global warming. Good point. Moving toward an alternative energy future is important. Still, we have to deal with the crimes of the present on a case-by-case basis. Those who wield great power, and those who abuse it, must be held primarily accountable. Even in an age of gluttony, where consumerism has run rampant and where consumers have delegated control of the technologies that feed their habits to corporate chieftains who abuse their trust with recklessness that often results in destruction, a primitive standard of justice demands that systemic change be accompanied by a modicum of personal
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