Essay : • « Do Companies Have a Responsibility Not to Destroy the Environment or Should Profits Be Allowed at Any Environmental Cost? »
Research Paper
* « Do companies have a responsibility not to destroy the environment or should profits be allowed at any environmental cost? »
Although environmental issues influence all human activities, companies and usual people have integrated green issues into their way of life. This is a kind of marketing, or not. As society becomes more concerned about natural environment, business have begun to modify their behavior against this new and current problem, but at what price for them? Some businesses have been fast, to appropriate in their structures concepts like environmental management and waste minimization. We can see a change in every organizational activities, as in marketing, for example Mc Donald change their previous red logo, in green one, A new one, for a new eco-system protecting plan. In this research we are going to see many element, which will prove that companies have a responsibility to take care about the environment.
In this research, a melting pot of arguments will be show, to understand if businesses and factories have to pollute instead of adapting their way to work in function of environment and sustainable development. Real fact will help to understand the point of view.
Firm’s activities have big environmental impact, its take a major part of naturals resources and reject in the environment. Oil and chemicals industries are not the only companies, which polluted. Every single firm consumes raw material as water, energy and others. It’s also rejected some substances more or less harmful in the environment. More over the intensive consumption of raw material have big impact on the extinction many species, or animal can become endangered. Deforestation in some country appears because companies want to produce more and more, always more. If firms continue to take resources as now, there will be an exhaustion of raw material as oil and gas. Climate change is partly caused by every reject by firms, in terms of polluting
* « Do companies have a responsibility not to destroy the environment or should profits be allowed at any environmental cost? »
Although environmental issues influence all human activities, companies and usual people have integrated green issues into their way of life. This is a kind of marketing, or not. As society becomes more concerned about natural environment, business have begun to modify their behavior against this new and current problem, but at what price for them? Some businesses have been fast, to appropriate in their structures concepts like environmental management and waste minimization. We can see a change in every organizational activities, as in marketing, for example Mc Donald change their previous red logo, in green one, A new one, for a new eco-system protecting plan. In this research we are going to see many element, which will prove that companies have a responsibility to take care about the environment.
In this research, a melting pot of arguments will be show, to understand if businesses and factories have to pollute instead of adapting their way to work in function of environment and sustainable development. Real fact will help to understand the point of view.
Firm’s activities have big environmental impact, its take a major part of naturals resources and reject in the environment. Oil and chemicals industries are not the only companies, which polluted. Every single firm consumes raw material as water, energy and others. It’s also rejected some substances more or less harmful in the environment. More over the intensive consumption of raw material have big impact on the extinction many species, or animal can become endangered. Deforestation in some country appears because companies want to produce more and more, always more. If firms continue to take resources as now, there will be an exhaustion of raw material as oil and gas. Climate change is partly caused by every reject by firms, in terms of polluting
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