{"id":677,"date":"2002-01-16T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-16T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2002-01-16T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-16T17:54:00","slug":"the-abominable-melchett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/01\/16\/13\/54\/the-abominable-melchett\/","title":{"rendered":"The Abominable Melchett"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone else<\/a> agrees with <\/a>me that the way Melchett abandoned Greenpeace was just despicable.
\nThe planet, in other words, will not be saved by wishful thinking. Without the effective regulation of both citizens and corporations, we will, between us, destroy the conditions which make life worth living. This is why some of us still bother to go to the polling booths: in the hope that governments will prevent the rich from hoarding all their wealth, stop our neighbours from murdering us and prevent us, collectively, from wrecking our surroundings. <\/p>\n

Because regulation works, companies will do whatever they can to prevent it. They will threaten governments with disinvestment, and the loss of thousands of jobs. They will use media campaigns to recruit public opinion to their cause. But one of their simplest and most successful strategies is to buy their critics. By this means, they not only divide their opponents and acquire inside information about how they operate; but they also benefit from what public relations companies call “image transfer”: absorbing other people’s credibility. <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone else agrees with me that the way Melchett abandoned Greenpeace was just despicable. The planet, in other words, will not be saved by wishful thinking. Without the effective regulation of both citizens and...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t