According to Richard Smith, the author of Green Capitalism: The God That Failed addressed that “…American environmentalists…became eco-entrepreneurs or signed on with one or another of the hundreds of new green businesses from organic foods to eco-travel to certifying lumber or fair trade coffee”(par.8). This became America’s path to sustainability and profits. For example, companies slowly began to introduce eco-friendly products such as, biodegradable plastics that can slowly decompose with bacteria and/ or other living organisms. The only question at hand was “how long would it take and would it hurt the environment more?” Heather Rogers briefly presses the issue by questioning “…how industrial transformation can take place… [when] high consumption levels… [occur] under green capitalism… [when] companies redesign their products to be… reincarnated or…harmlessly disintegrate[d]…” (212). In short, green capitalism inevitably leads to increasing levels of waste because of how easily biodegradable products are to dispose
According to Richard Smith, the author of Green Capitalism: The God That Failed addressed that “…American environmentalists…became eco-entrepreneurs or signed on with one or another of the hundreds of new green businesses from organic foods to eco-travel to certifying lumber or fair trade coffee”(par.8). This became America’s path to sustainability and profits. For example, companies slowly began to introduce eco-friendly products such as, biodegradable plastics that can slowly decompose with bacteria and/ or other living organisms. The only question at hand was “how long would it take and would it hurt the environment more?” Heather Rogers briefly presses the issue by questioning “…how industrial transformation can take place… [when] high consumption levels… [occur] under green capitalism… [when] companies redesign their products to be… reincarnated or…harmlessly disintegrate[d]…” (212). In short, green capitalism inevitably leads to increasing levels of waste because of how easily biodegradable products are to dispose