Moral Reform

When activists, citizens, and others made pleas for prosecuting the companies who were manipulating information and committing investor fraud, Congress enacted a corporate reform law (130). This law placed heavy requirements on companies while ignoring those who failed in regulating the previous companies. While the corporate reforms did improve the companies superficially, the only way to actually improve a company is moral reform. There are three principles that summarize corporate reform. Transparency is the first: that the company will “conduct business and make decisions with integrity, honesty, and input from investors.” The second is disclosure: that the company will “give investors and the general public a cclear picture of the biases and conflicts built into the advice they receive, and provide easy access to that information.” The third is accountability: that “all executives will be held accountable for actions and their consequences, under codes of conduct that require the CEO and chief compliance officer to certify that all the proper codes are in place. (132)” …show more content…
After they rejected “electricity, flush toilets, fossil fuels, biotechnology, capitalism and the United States” in order to save the world, the United States, Australia, and Canada ignored their decisions. The US, Australia, and Canada “promoted free markets, free trade and economic development as the solution to global poverty and environmental degradation. (155)” This decision seems to be the beginning of the end Eco-Imperialism. As CSR opened the way to a tyranny for the good of the people, that way can close with internal reform, true leadership, and an actual care for God’s world and the people in