Image: https://unsplash.com/@shrouda By Lucy Evans Society in Decline Globalisation has led to the rapid, uncontrollable growth of corporations. Giving these corporate giants inevitably great political power, due to their economic influence; while creating...
Category: Corporate power
Is the Fundamental Cause of Climate Change Capitalist Economic Growth?
Image: https://unsplash.com/@markusspiske By Fanchao SunWith the progress and development of society, global climate change is a problem we have to face. This environmental problem has become the focus of public opinion in contemporary society, stemming from its...
How the Corporation has made our Facebook Posts More Valuable than Oil
Image: https://unsplash.com/@camstejim By Trinity Weir Everything we do is being monitored. It may not be through a webcam, but through every click, on our devices. We live under constant surveillance. How did this happen to our beloved apps: Snapchat, Instagram...
How Neoliberalism Destroyed the Planet and Why Capitalism Won’t Save Us
Image: https://unsplash.com/@ideanaire By Milo Di Duca A lot of the rhetoric from mainstream politics talks about building a greener future in regard to the climate crisis. However, this seems to neglect the fact that before mass industrialisation, the planet was...
Something’s in the Water: looking back on BP’s environmental hit-and-run
Image: https://unsplash.com/@noaa By Evelyn Langford-Smith Not only can a picture say a thousand words, but this one probably smells pretty strong too. As journalist Andrew Ward stated in 2018, BP’s initial handling of Deepwater Horizon was a...
Would I Lie to You? If I’m a CEO, Probably! A History of Corporate Irresponsibility
Image: https://unsplash.com/@anniespratt By Edward Donne Corporate Fraud: An example Enron. “The darling of Wall Street.” Voted “America’s most innovative company for six consecutive years between 1996 and 2001.” What seemed to be one of the...
Rich vs. Poor: The Next Pandemic?
The dichotomy that is plaguing the world By Alanah Coulson The covid-19 pandemic has brought an abundance of things to light; brightest of all being the raging divide between the rich and poor. Not only have healthcare systems become crippled, but so too the economy...
Who Has the Power? Morality of Corporations and Impact of Social Movements
Image: https://unsplash.com/@jaywennington By Nina Szewczyk Is protesting climate change a waste of time? Many would agree, as they do not believe that their individual actions could change rich CEO’s minds about corporate policies. If that’s the case, why do...
The Friendly Face of Capitalism? Performative Activism, Climate Change and Black Lives Matter
Image: https://unsplash.com/@jays_vers By Esme Hadfield The multinational oil company, Shell, is notorious for playing a prominent role in producing the current climate emergency crisis. However, on November 2nd 2020, Shell caused outrage after posting a twitter...
Ramifications of Globalisation: The monstrous form of corporate power
Image: https://unsplash.com/@jakaylatoney By Giselle Going In our rapidly globalising world, the image of ‘the multinational corporation’ (or, ‘MNC’) has come to represent the evil of our industrialised capitalist society: it encapsulates the pollution and...
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