#corporateresponsibility — Public Fediverse posts
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Company Aims for ‘Moonshot’ Replacement for Trees in Paper Products with Humble Desert Plant
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This is what being *left* means! This is what *progressive* means!
Zohran Mamdani: "I’m proud to support the Delivery Protection Act, which would finally regulate subcontractors used by corporations like Amazon to skirt responsibility for workers and street safety. Enough is enough."
#Unions #Amazon #Progressive #CorporateResponsibility #RegulateCorporations #WorkersRights
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Hyundai Partners with Healthy Seas to Turn Scourge ‘GhostNets’ into Floor Mats for Cars
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Criticism of Water Company CEO's Bonus Amid Environmental Concerns and Customer Complaints
📰 Original title: Yorkshire Water CEO's £660k payment 'hard to accept'
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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Smoke, soot and toxic fumes: Nigerian families living in shadow of burning oil well six years after blowout https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/06/burning-oil-well-niger-delta-awoye-nigeria #Nigeria #Chevron #FossilFuels #environment #DirtyOil #health #toxic #CorporateResponsibility
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USA’s Largest Renewable Project Comes Online with More Power Than the Hoover Dam
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Seasonal Compassion Is a Failed Operating Model
By Cliff Potts, CSO & Editor-in-Chief, WPS News
A Predictable Pattern
Every year, institutions across the developed world engage in a predictable, short-lived surge of concern for poverty, homelessness, and economic precarity. The timing is not accidental. It coincides almost entirely with the Christmas season.
During this period, corporations, governments, faith institutions, and media organizations briefly acknowledge the existence of the poor. Resources are allocated, messaging shifts toward empathy and generosity, and suffering is framed as tragic but temporary—implicitly solvable through limited charitable action.
Then the calendar advances. Budgets reset. First-quarter priorities reassert themselves. The systems that produced widespread insecurity resume without modification, now buffered by the reputational credit earned during the holidays.
This is not an aberration. It is the operating model.
Compassion as Reputation Management
Seasonal compassion functions as a reputational offset, not a corrective mechanism. It allows institutions to appear responsive without addressing root causes. In business terms, poverty is treated as a public-relations risk rather than a systemic market failure.
Concern is carefully bounded in time and scope. It is intense enough to be visible, brief enough to be harmless, and structured to avoid disruption to existing incentives and power arrangements.
The Market Cost of Impoverishment
What is rarely acknowledged is that large-scale impoverishment actively shrinks markets.
When individuals and communities fall into relative or abject poverty, they are removed from meaningful participation in market dynamics. They cannot consume, invest, innovate, or contribute at scale. Their exclusion represents not fiscal discipline, but lost demand, lost productivity, and foregone growth.
From a purely economic standpoint, allowing populations to become this disadvantaged is not efficiency—it is value destruction.
Businesses that tolerate or benefit from systems that impoverish large segments of society undermine their own long-term profitability. Markets cannot expand when purchasing power collapses. Innovation stagnates when survival replaces opportunity. Stability erodes when precarity becomes normalized.
Christianity as Symbol, Not Substance
Christianity, when invoked during this season, is typically reduced to symbolism rather than substance. The figure of Jesus is used to justify generosity while his actual teachings—on debt, power, exclusion, and material need—are operationally ignored.
His emphasis was never on sentiment, but on outcomes. He addressed hunger when it existed. He disrupted systems that normalized deprivation. He did not propose seasonal remedies for permanent conditions.
What we practice instead is managed compassion: bounded, time-limited concern designed to preserve comfort, profit, and institutional continuity while producing minimal structural change.
Exporting a Broken Model
This failure is not confined to any one nation. It is exported.
So-called “developing” economies are encouraged to adopt the same economic frameworks—precarity-based labor, extractive growth models, normalized inequality—that have already demonstrated their inability to produce durable human security. The result is not development, but replication: the same failures, scaled globally.
From a governance and business perspective, this approach is indefensible.
The Year-Round Test
Poverty is not an anomaly within an otherwise healthy system. It is a predictable outcome of policy choices, incentive structures, and economic priorities. Treating it as a seasonal concern guarantees its persistence while steadily eroding the very markets businesses depend on.
If Christianity—or any ethical framework—is to have relevance beyond decoration, it must inform year-round decision-making: fiscal policy, labor standards, housing strategy, healthcare access, and development models. Not symbolically. Operationally.
And if we refuse to fix the causes of relative and abject poverty the rest of the year, nothing we do during the Christmas season will ever matter.
For more social commentary, please see https://Occupy25.com
APA References
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2015). In it together: Why less inequality benefits all. OECD Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264235120-en
World Bank. (2020). Poverty and shared prosperity 2020: Reversals of fortune. World Bank Publications. https://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-1602-4
International Monetary Fund. (2015). Causes and consequences of income inequality: A global perspective. IMF Staff Discussion Note SDN/15/13.
Stiglitz, J. E. (2012). The price of inequality: How today’s divided society endangers our future. W. W. Norton & Company.
#BusinessEthics #capitalism #Christianity #corporateResponsibility #developmentEconomics #economicInequality #homelessness #marketFailure #Poverty #socialJustice #systemicPoverty #WPSNews
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Canada's Liberals particularly with #MarkCarney have no real interest in social responsibility, #humanrights, #labourjustice, socialjustice, environmentaljustice, or #IndigenousRights domestically or internationally. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-eliminating-canadian-ombudperson-for-responsible-enterprise-9.7232539
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Chicago Home Builder Lauded for Halting Construction Just to Save Killdeer Nest
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ESG: Kunci Masa Depan Bisnis Berkelanjutan di Era Digital
Di tengah meningkatnya perhatian terhadap perubahan iklim, tanggung jawab sosial, dan transparansi perusahaan, konsep ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) telah menjadi salah satu indikator utama dalam menilai keberlanjutan sebuah bisnis. Tidak hanya investor, tetapi juga konsumen, pemerintah, dan mitra bisnis kini semakin mempertimbangkan praktik ESG sebelum mengambil keputusan. Foto di atas menggambarkan bagaimana teknologi digital memainkan peran penting dalam implementasi ESG. […]https://frnstudio.wordpress.com/2026/06/06/esg-kunci-masa-depan-bisnis-berkelanjutan-di-era-digital/
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The Mining Giant's Internal Pause: BHP's Climate Path Diverges from Public Claim
BHP's internal documents show plans to delay climate goals, contradicting public statements. This affects shareholders and environmental targets.
#BHP, #ClimateChange, #Mining, #Environment, #CorporateResponsibility
https://newsletter.tf/bhp-delays-climate-goals-internal-docs-show-backtrack/
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Leaked documents reveal BHP is delaying climate goals, a significant change from their public stance on climate change being an 'existential' threat.
#BHP, #ClimateChange, #Mining, #Environment, #CorporateResponsibility
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Samsung Strikes Deal with Workers for Profit Sharing in Company’s Trillion Dollar Slice of the AI Pie
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How much did PepsiCo contribute to Russia’s budget during four years of war?
According to estimates by KSE and B4Ukraine, if we look beyond corporate profit tax and include VAT, payroll taxes, social contributions, customs duties and other payments generated by PepsiCo’s operations in Russia, the figure for 2022–2025 could be around $1–2 billion.
To understand the scale: in 2024 alone, PepsiCo reportedly generated $4.5 billion in revenue in Russia and paid $122 million in profit tax. The company still operates 19 plants and employs around 60,000 people in the country.
Every ruble paid into Russia’s budget helps sustain a state waging a war of aggression against Ukraine.
Corporate responsibility cannot stop at press releases.#Ukraine #Russia #PepsiCo #CorporateResponsibility #StopFundingRussia #StandWithUkraine
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Phone Case Brand Designs Autonomous Floating Plastic Collection Platform to Combat Ocean Waste
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Garish Parcel Locker Plunked in Cul-de-sac is Removed After Residents’ Complaints, CEO Admits it was ‘Wholly Unsuitable’
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😆 Oh, the irony! Palantir employees suddenly catch a whiff of conscience and wonder if they've been the villains all along—because apparently years of controversial practices weren't enough of a hint. 🤔🔍 Spoiler alert: If you have to ask, the answer is probably yes. 🦹♂️
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/ #PalantirIrony #ConscienceVillains #TechEthics #CorporateResponsibility #ControversialPractices #HackerNews #ngated -
Book Fairies Giving Away 25,000 Books to New York’s Children Thanks to Big Donation
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6,500 Volunteers Build 10,000 Beds in 24 Hours for Kids Who Don’t Have One of Their Own (WATCH)
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Gifted link.
...For the first time in France, and possibly for the first time ever, anywhere, an entire corporation had been put on trial and found criminally liable for enabling terrorism...
Really interesting read. Of course, much of this hinges on the definition of terrorism... hint, hint.
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(UPDATE) DoorDash CEO Adds $20,000 to Woman’s Viral Fundraiser for Elderly Delivery Driver
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Japan’s Yogurt Delivery Ladies Serve as a Support Net for Country’s Aging Population
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‘Cards Against Humanity’ Offers to Refund ‘Obviously Illegal’ Tariffs to Customers After Supreme Court Decision