Greenpeace activists have targeted the Mattel headquarters in El Segundo and hung this banner on the front of the 15-storey building. The banner shows a Ken doll with the message "Barbie, it's over. I don't date girls that are into deforestation".
While this is amusing, it's a serious issue. Mattel are destroying Indonesian rain forests for the packaging of their Barbie dolls. Mattel - a company that makes billions every year, that produces a doll that some of the young girls that own it aspire to end up like, that can definitely afford responsibly sourced materials.
Not only is it really fucking irresponsible to sell something that represents the greed of corporations and a 'profit at any expense' mindset to children, chopping down rain forests for the sake of pretty boxes is evil and insane. Children are a lot smarter, and a lot more in tune with the world than people give them credit for... but I also know that when an adult says something, a young child is a lot less likely to question it's credibility than their older counterparts.
Not only is it really fucking irresponsible to sell something that represents the greed of corporations and a 'profit at any expense' mindset to children, chopping down rain forests for the sake of pretty boxes is evil and insane. Children are a lot smarter, and a lot more in tune with the world than people give them credit for... but I also know that when an adult says something, a young child is a lot less likely to question it's credibility than their older counterparts.
The Sumatran tiger is on the brink of extinction. Thousands of species go extinct every year because of deforestation, and it isn't fair. The child market is targeted with farmyard toys because they're "cute", those children aren't educated on battery farms or the fur industry. There are books about animals printed on paper from irresponsible sources that don't tell the story of how, actually, by the time the child reading it has grown up, there may be no tigers or orangutans left in the wild. Up to 20% of birds could be extinct by 2100. Tribes of people lose their homes and resources because people sitting at their desks in some glossy skyscraper can turn a blind eye and focus on profit and global influence instead.
I don't care how much your child cries and bitches about not having a particular toy; by supporting Mattel you are showing them that they can rape the environment and even when people find out, they're still going to make a huge fortune.
Who is anyone to decide which species is more deserving than another ? And who is anyone to declare ownership and sale of any part of the world ? When it comes down to it, deeds and titles are bits of paper. The world made us, we did not make the world.
Animals and people and plants are disappearing because some people don't want to look after the world they belong to, and it makes me angry. People talk about what would happen if aliens came to Earth and tried to destroy it - that'd just be karma. That is exactly the same as what people are doing to the natural world. Look at the devastation in Japan earlier this year, look at New Orleans, look at Haiti - that's what is happening in the rain forest and the ocean and anywhere else with 'resources' on a daily basis, but because people can so easily turn a blind eye to it, they ignore it.
These people are first on the spectrum of human shit.
Who is anyone to decide which species is more deserving than another ? And who is anyone to declare ownership and sale of any part of the world ? When it comes down to it, deeds and titles are bits of paper. The world made us, we did not make the world.
Animals and people and plants are disappearing because some people don't want to look after the world they belong to, and it makes me angry. People talk about what would happen if aliens came to Earth and tried to destroy it - that'd just be karma. That is exactly the same as what people are doing to the natural world. Look at the devastation in Japan earlier this year, look at New Orleans, look at Haiti - that's what is happening in the rain forest and the ocean and anywhere else with 'resources' on a daily basis, but because people can so easily turn a blind eye to it, they ignore it.
These people are first on the spectrum of human shit.
Be a decent human being and realize that the life of another is just as important as your own, and more important than products to take pictures of for your blog or your Tumblr. If I sound preachy right now then good.
Mattel are just one of many companies doing evil for profit, and by buying from any of these companies you are just as bad. You are an enabler, you are adding to the problem, increasing the companies power over the consumer and letting them know that no matter how they behave, people will always come back for more. People really suck.
Mattel are just one of many companies doing evil for profit, and by buying from any of these companies you are just as bad. You are an enabler, you are adding to the problem, increasing the companies power over the consumer and letting them know that no matter how they behave, people will always come back for more. People really suck.
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- Allende Isabel
- Allende Isabel
It's funny how when you post stuff that is actually important or has a cause nobody comments but when you post pictures of shoes or whatever you get loads
ReplyDeletesick sad world
I thought that the other day...
ReplyDeleteObviously if I'm not taking loads of photos of myself trying so hard to look like I'm not trying at all then I must be really stupid. Anything that won't like, fuel my desperate self promotion is just really like depressingggg