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Business and the Environment: Is There More to the Story? - Coggle Diagram
Business and the Environment: Is There More to the Story?
Businesses are driven by profits
Productive environmental programs
Best way to solve a problem
State of US environment
Improved significantly
Record of environmental improvement isn’t surprising business executives
Impression that business is evolving its responsibilities
Quality of public information
Business and the environment is poor
Misinformation Distorts Impressions
Contamination became a major political event
This law taxed the oil & chemical industries
Environmental protection agency set
extremely tough cleanup standards.
Many people anticipated an epidemic of environmental deterioration around the country
Actions taken to improve the environment
Good for profits
Business is an irresponsible steward
Hearing criticism of business’s environmental record
Business economists
Record of environmental improvement isn’t surprising business executives
Action to mitigate environmental damage
Duncan Meldrum
Weak investment on a direct financial return basis.
Lower insurance rates
Higher productivity
Improved products
Reality and Dreams
many people have unrealistic expectations about what business can do
particular focus has
been recyclng
Frustrated by the failure of the paper industry
to increase its recycling to the extent
Tennessee Tree Massacre?
environmental problems are “technically complex and highly emotional”
complexity and emotion that may lead to error and,
certainly, to acrimony.
85 per cent of the Tennessee plateau “is still covered with the
native woodland,” forests that are “lush and teeming with life”
reveals the
difficulty businesses face in telling their story.
No article or book can definitively assess the environmental stewardship of all industries
environmental quality in the United States is getting better