[lbo-talk] Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola and Chevron not bad for, nature

[brad bauerly]

While everything you mention is true, Alan, I wonder if this isn't a false
dichotomy.  Diamond wants to claim that these large corps are good for the
environment and I wonder if we should follow him down this path of
argumentation to just simply invert it and argue that these large corps are
in fact, the environmental problem.  I have a real fear, valid or not, of
the large corporations = evil and bad basis for a critique.  While it may be
tactical to use this rhetoric to draw people in and help them make
connections and conclusions, it tends to over simplify the problem and lead
to just a critique of big corporations and not necessarily capitalism.
Isn't the difference between Coca Cola and some other smaller company merely
quantitative (bigger corporation bigger environmental impact/footprint)?
Or, are you claiming that it is a qualitative difference?  If so, what is
the basis of this qualitative difference, ability to influence policy,
market share and horizontal/vertical integration (ie: monopoly power), or
just sheer evilness?

Brad