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In each of these cases, the companies involved ran a public campaign of denial.
Asbestos
James Hardie denies problem then leaves Australia.
Link to a Government publication (interesting read but long).
Smoking
Leaked internal Tobacco company documents revealed that they were aware they couldn't contradict the science so decided to create doubt in the public's mind about the science thus delaying restrictions and continuing profits.
Dealing in Doubt: Greenpeace page.
"Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' [linking smoking with disease] that exists in the mind of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy...”
Tobacco company Brown and Williamson internal document, 1969. (http://tobaccodocuments.org/landman/332506.html)
In each of these cases, the companies involved ran a public campaign of denial.
Asbestos
James Hardie denies problem then leaves Australia.
Link to a Government publication (interesting read but long).
Smoking
Leaked internal Tobacco company documents revealed that they were aware they couldn't contradict the science so decided to create doubt in the public's mind about the science thus delaying restrictions and continuing profits.
Dealing in Doubt: Greenpeace page.
"Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' [linking smoking with disease] that exists in the mind of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy...”
Tobacco company Brown and Williamson internal document, 1969. (http://tobaccodocuments.org/landman/332506.html)
Ozone Depletion
Despite fully being aware of the problem of freon damaging the Ozone layer, companies such as Du Pont denied the dangers of CFCs for decades. Whilst arguing against it, they developed the replacement, HCFCs.Then made heaps of money.
News article.
Climate Change
Fossil fuel companies also fund and run camaigns to cast doubt in consumers minds about the science.
How Exxonmobil funds climate change skeptics
Merchants of Doubt.
Americian Denial of Global Warming.
Sugar
culpable negligence - (law)
recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences)
negligence
1. the state or quality of being negligent
2. a negligent act
3. (Law) law a civil wrong whereby a person or party is in breach of a legal duty of care to another which results in loss or injury to the claimant.
False Pretenses
Issuing untrue statements in order to fraudulently obtain money or property. For example: claiming that zircons are diamonds, or turning back a car's odometer. It is considered a form of theft.
JUST BEING GREEDY
Free Trade Agreements.
Currently the chemical companies Bayer and Syngenta are suing the European Commision for a temporary moratorium on a type of pesticide for 2 years that is strongly suspected of killing bees. At this moment in time, large numbers of bees hives are dying in Europe, the USA and other parts of the world. News article. Read more..
The Canadian company Infinito Gold is suing Costa Rica (yes, the South american country) for over $1 billion dollars because it rejected a plan for an open pit coal mine in a tropical rain forest. Read more...
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Currently the chemical companies Bayer and Syngenta are suing the European Commision for a temporary moratorium on a type of pesticide for 2 years that is strongly suspected of killing bees. At this moment in time, large numbers of bees hives are dying in Europe, the USA and other parts of the world. News article. Read more..
The Canadian company Infinito Gold is suing Costa Rica (yes, the South american country) for over $1 billion dollars because it rejected a plan for an open pit coal mine in a tropical rain forest. Read more...
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