Business is business, money is money. It's what makes the world go 'round.

Corporate America will always (or until they are forced to change) do everything they can to reduce costs and maximize profit.

It's a rare corporation that thinks of the environment (or any other innocent bystander) before it's shareholders (or their own self-serving executives). How many major corporations make dramatic changes to their operations on their own, without government intervention, that cost them money but reduce their negative environmental impact?

Loggers are no more likely to want to stop what they're doing than commercial fishermen. That's not just the corporate managers, it's the blue collar guys too. Who wants to give up their livelihood first?

FWIW, these "increase profits at all non-financial costs" effects aren't reserved for the environment. Look what's happening now with manufacturing. The resource being affected in this case is jobs in the US. Will we legislate job security? Not without corporate execs. going down screaming and kicking.....not to mention the people that will no long be able to get free phones when they upgrade their cellular plan.

rant mode =

So, anyone looking for an SMT Process Engineer?