I like to call it a vessel phrase: empty language used to export a company’s image to the public without commitment or changes in business practice. Classic greenwashing. I can’t help but wonder whether all those “save the earth” campaigns companies put out cause more environmental damage in marketing and waste than actually mitigating environmental harm. It’s a structural problem…as long as companies can derive profit from vessel language, there is no reason for them to change their actions.
I would add: Not patting yourself on the back for some minimally beneficial (or perhaps full-on useless) gesture and treating that as a free pass to do whatever else you want. (valid for both large industrials and individual people)
I like to call it a vessel phrase: empty language used to export a company’s image to the public without commitment or changes in business practice. Classic greenwashing. I can’t help but wonder whether all those “save the earth” campaigns companies put out cause more environmental damage in marketing and waste than actually mitigating environmental harm. It’s a structural problem…as long as companies can derive profit from vessel language, there is no reason for them to change their actions.
I would add: Not patting yourself on the back for some minimally beneficial (or perhaps full-on useless) gesture and treating that as a free pass to do whatever else you want. (valid for both large industrials and individual people)
Couldn't agree more. PS - your Carlin video is giving a playback error (which Carlin would have gotten a chuckle out of.)
TY! Fixed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c