An open letter to Patagonia, Lush Cosmetics, and Ben & Jerry’s – your climate activism/lifestyle marketing/bipolar worldview begs the question: why do you exist?

In an era where you three companies are demanding immediate action with respect to greenhouse gas emissions/climate change, how do you even begin to justify your existence? The world does not need you, your hedonistic overpriced products, or your footprint. The world would suffer not the slightest if all three of your organizations vanished tomorrow, in fact it would greatly benefit. Read on…

9 Replies to “An open letter to Patagonia, Lush Cosmetics, and Ben & Jerry’s – your climate activism/lifestyle marketing/bipolar worldview begs the question: why do you exist?”

  1. Why do they exist? To make money, just like all other companies.
    Why do they say what they say re climate? White guilt. They make gobs of money from selling high end products, they feel guilty about doing it because they know they are privileged, rich, white, and living in America. Doing this is their plenary indulgence.
    Do they really care about the poor? No. The poorer the workers, the more money they make. As long as there are customers who make money and are willing to pay their exorbitant prices. And they assuage their conscience by supporting socialist policies. Until one day when society really breaks down, as it did in Nazi Germany or Communist Russia and China, and all their wealth is appropriated and they are sent to slave labor.
    Personally, I have never appreciated high end products, be they those three companies, or anything else. Whatever it is, you can always pay reasonable prices for something very good, or exorbitant prices for something just a little better. Some people claim to be able to tell the difference and are willing to pay for it. If they really do, I don’t envy them, I more pity them for being so hard to satisfy.

  2. When you try to seriously address the (non) problem of man caused Carbon Dioxide being added to the atmosphere, you must prioritize all human action. Anything that doesn’t contribute to basic human needs (food, shelter, and warmth) can be sacrificed to the pantheistic deity (masquerading as) settled science. This would include all luxury items, non-essential but CO2 contributing travel including tourism and recreation, sports, entertainment, redundancies ranging from competing media to inefficient private properties and wealth and all from the private sector as the public sector would be considered essential. IOW, all climate action ultimately leads to compulsory existence roughly equivalent to the former Soviet Union. Anything less is hypocritical. And they wonder why they are called watermelons.

    1. Excellent comment!

      In Colorado, just yesterday and today, the first of its ski resorts opened, even though we shouldn’t know what snow is. Anyway, these resort companies are all on the “climate” bandwagon, but they are really down low on the list of basic human needs.

  3. If you believe in preventing climate change:
    – give up your car. Walk, ride a bike.
    – university students should form Uber Rickshaw. A safe, but slow way for people to get around. And a way of putting lots of students to work.
    – install lots of bunk beds in your house. The climate cannot survive two to four people living in one house. You should have 10 to 20 people living in your house.

    The above are just a start for all the climate activists.

    For those who think CO2 is plant food, carry on as you are.

  4. But it’s a perfect fit.
    People buy luxury products so they can feel good about themselves and superior to those that can’t or don’t.
    People profess concern about the environment, global warming etc. so that they can feel good about themselves and superior to those who can’t or don’t.
    These companies are selling positional goods anyway, they’ve just added another positional good to their range.

  5. “Why do you exist?”

    The question for all enviro-hypocrites, corporate or otherwise. True commitment would involve sacrifices of the most drastic kind.

  6. “Why do they exist? To make money, just like all other companies.”
    All companies exist to make money-or at least they should.
    When they support the causes they do its not because of things like white guilt. Its simply because they think that “that support” will get them more customers and more business. Its as simple as that.Virtue signalling. Anyone who thinks differently has NEVER been involved in a business.

  7. Do these guys even realize how little sacrifice would be involved in boycotting their products?

  8. Their goods are marketed at pampered princesses whose daddies have disposable income. The princesses care about the earth, or pretend to, because it’s fashionable to do so and they can afford to. Their concern for blessed mother Gaia will vanish the day they run out of daddy’s money.

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