The Fondation steering committee consists mostly of folks from big tech companies like #Microsoft, #Shell, #Siemens, #GitHub #GoldmanSachs or #Google.

While they all claim they want to save energy and resources, they are corporations. They only care about optimizing revenues, which they are legally obligated to by being corporations. The real reason they want to save energy and resources is because they think it will make them earn more money in the end.

#SaveEnergy #corporations

Corporations want to optimize their resources consumption to reduce their cost, not to save the planet.

They do this as a way to look greener, because they think it will attract more clients. It's marketing.

When corporations talk about #sustainability what they talk about is how they plan to make their company grow faster to survive against other corporations.

Under capitalism, corporations are in competitions. They have to grow constantly and acquire other companies in order to not be acquired themselves by other corporations.

A corporation talking about sustainability is only a mean to defend themselves against acquisition.

Yet we all know that infinite growth isn't sustainable!

#capitalism

Rich people, the 1% who own all of Earth's resources and money, are terrified of the #climateCrisis but not for the same reason as you and I. They aren't afraid for their life, because they own houses in countries that won't be affected by climate changes or mega-yachts that can move around in search of good weather.

No, rich people are afraid of the economic crisis that will come with the environmental crisis. They are afraid that their company will lose clients and lose value.

#megayachts

@pgcd 💯

I would even say that, under our current system, people are already "sort of slaves". Most people are living pay check to pay check. They can't afford to lose their job. If they lose their job, they lose their home, they can't eat. Isn't that pretty close to the definition of a slave?