To the Editor:
Re “Will Big Business Save the Earth?” (Op-Ed, Dec. 6):
Jared Diamond highlights three of this country’s largest polluters as green advocates. In each example — Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola and Chevron — he acknowledges the enormous footprint that each company has. After each example, we hear the concessions that these companies are prepared to make toward resource conservation.
Unfortunately, no concession that these companies make at this point will make up for Wal-Mart’s carbon footprint across its corporate history, all the clean water thus far consumed by Coca-Cola, and the ecological resilience and indigenous food security that have been lost through Chevron’s trial-and-error prospecting.
See full Letter.
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