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and more recently
a project manager for Shell.
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I ask myself
often times why
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so many companies
subscribe to
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corporate social responsibility.
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Im not sure it's because
they necessarily
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want to be responsible
in an ultimate way
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but because
they want to be
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identified and seen
to be responsible.
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But who am l to judge?
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Who am I to judge?
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It's better that they
belong than they not belong.
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It's better that they make
some public profession
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than the opposite.
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Social responsibility
isnt a deep shift
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because its
a voluntary tactic.
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A tactic
:48:55
a reaction to a certain
market at this point.
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And as the corporation reads
the market differently
:49:05
it can go back.
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One day you
see Bambi
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next day
you see Godzilla.
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How do you define
socially responsible?
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What business is it
of the corporation to decide
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whats socially responsible.
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That isnt
their expertise
:49:20
that isnt what their
stockholders ask them to do.
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So I think theyre going
out of their range
:49:27
and its certainly
is not democratic.
:49:31
I dont really care
:49:32
what the chairman
of General Motors thinks
:49:35
is an appropriate
level of emissions
:49:37
to come out the tailpipe
of General Motors automobiles.
:49:41
He may have a lot
of scientists
:49:42
he may be
a very good person
:49:44
but I didnt elect
him to do anything.
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He doesnt have any
power to speak for me.
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These are decisions that must
be made by government
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and not by corporations.
:49:53
You take this to its
logical conclusion.
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One would have an image
that we are in fact at this