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Update headline to include (2021) Also, a couple things: 1.) North Face really really cares about image and marketing. In my opinion, there's nothing special
by chomp 4y ago
Update headline to include (2021)
Also, a couple things:
1.) North Face really really cares about image and marketing. In my opinion, there's nothing special to their product- it's all image. So, blocking O&G companies from branding their gear is somewhat understandable.
2.) They do use some eco-friendly material, and (supposedly, maybe) will have more responsibly sourced material coming by 2025 (not sure if they committed to this before, or after this debacle).
3.) It's funny to me that his best defense of oil and gas is "you live in an oil and gas society, so, gotcha!"
- flavius29663 4y agoWe all need oil and gas to sustain our modern lifestyle. To pretend otherwise it's just hypocritical. Blaming the oil companies for allowing us a comfortable and easy life is so shortsighted - we don't want to live like Tarzan...
- rhn_mk1 4y agoNobody's blaming them for having gotten us easy lives. What they are blamed for is not leaving the scene when we need to move on.
- zdragnar 4y agoThey'll leave the scene when we move on.
- rhn_mk1 4y ago...while actively trying to prevent it by gaslighting the rest of us about the urgency https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...
- bozhark 4y agoMore like… holding the oil and gas companies responsible for knowingly trying to hide their negative environmental/social/economic impact of their industry… since the 1960’s
- bozhark 4y agoMore like… holding the oil and gas companies responsible for knowingly trying to hide their negative environmental/social/economic impact of their industry… since the 1960’s
- spaetzleesser 4y agoWe need oil and gas but there is no excuse for these companies to release a ton of misleading information about climate change while knowing better.
- technothrasher 4y ago> we don't want to live like Tarzan Tarzan had a house in London, an apartment in Paris, and a large estate in Africa. He also spent time with Jane's rich relatives in Baltimore and hung out with Hollywood stars in California (Yeah, Burroughs started to get more and more silly in the later books). I wouldn't mind living like Tarzan.
- jhbadger 4y agoThat later part was because Burroughs himself bought a ranch near Hollywood in his later years which he named "Tarzana". This was later developed into a neighborhood which is named Tarzana to this day.
- convolvatron 4y agosetting this up as a choice between accepting climate change and living in a cave is the most destructive thing one can do here. yes, there is alot of adaptation that's going to need to happen, and we should have started decades ago. can't promise that the price of coffee won't go way up. no one is going to live in a cave.
- throw7 4y agoBut North Face co-branded with his company and not with another O&G company. That was the trigger (or one of them): https://www.outsidebusinessjournal.com/issues/what-happens-when-an-oil-company-publicly-accuses-the-north-face-of-hypocrisy/ https://www.outsidebusinessjournal.com/issues/what-happens-w...