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4.
Called to account
“There is no such thing as ‘away’.
When we throw anything away, it
must go somewhere”
- Annie Leonard
Supply and demand economics
have become dangerous as it
is too slow to recognise that
resources are finite and that in
the case of air, soil and water
humans cannot pollute them
indefinitely and survive on the
planet.
This is not to call for an end to
capitalism – it is to accept that
we need three ‘bottom lines’
in order to assess whether
it is fit for purpose. Profit,
people and planet. We call this
‘Compatabalism’.
Put simply, businesses need
to come clean about their full
impact.
Measuring our environmental
footprint and our social
handprint is helping us to
improve the way we do business
all round. While AURO published
their first environmental
impact report in 2014 we have
concentrated our efforts hitherto
on doing the right thing rather
than telling people we are doing
it.
So from 2020 we are instigating
We need to be told by businesses published reporting ourselves
and this is our first annual
what profits or losses they have
made annually, but we also need account. We have adopted
to know that they have honestly internationally recognised
frameworks where they exist
measured the impact that their
and where they do not, we are
operations have had on our
taking our first steps knowing
shared environment and on
that we will be able to refine our
human societies.
reporting year on year.
Compatabalism is Capitalism made better...
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