quarta-feira, fevereiro 11, 2004

Melancias (*)

A ONG "ecologista"-e-não-só Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) publicou o relatório "Exxon’s Climate Footprint - The Contribution of Exxonmobil to Climate Change Since 1882".

Nas palavras da referida organização, "This is the first time a company's historic contribution to global climate change has ever been calculated and could prove vital in paving the way for compensation claims against companies by victims of global warming caused by man-made pollution".

Se o esquema funcionou com uns quantos fumadores em relação às tabaqueiras, porque não com os FoEI em relação à petrolíferas? E não fazem a coisa por menos, vão responsabilizá-los por tudo desde 1882 -- sim, leram bem, 1882!

E já que tocamos neste assunto, quem vão os auto-nomeados beneméritos altruístas da FoEI indemnizar pela parte que lhes cabe da poluição?

Este relatório não aparece caído do céu, insere-se numa campanha dos FoEI contra a Exxon, que tem antecedentes, como por exemplo este: "In their capacity as "shareholder activists", they disrupt shareholders meetings and act to actively tarnish corporate and individual reputations. Friends of the Earth worked hard last year [2003] to instigate a consumer boycott against Exxon Mobil - for not investing in renewable energy resources and for ignoring global warming. No one - including other shareholders - understood their demands. But it went down well with the media, with a few celebrities, and with contributors."

(*)Melancia - s. f. (bot.) planta da fam. das Cucurbitáceas, originária da África, de caules herbáceos prostrados, apreciada pelos seus grandes frutos suculentos (pepónios), comestíveis, verdes por fora e vermelhos por dentro.
"In North America the black bear was seen by [Samuel] Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."
Darwin, Charles; "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" (On the origin and transitions of organic beings with peculiar habits and structure)