Well, hi,
I've seen that long infomercial - I think it's done by Greenpeace,
which does have a lot of expenditures, runs a couple of small ships, etc.;
it's pretty interesting and an excellent example of effective rhetoric,
making all the artistic appeals of Aristotle (logos, ethos, pathos). And no
doubt virtually all environmental groups - and all activist groups - have
short term cash flow problems.
I guess my point was that they are not in business to make money,
that money is necessary for them to do business. It is a distinction with a
difference.
The business of business is business: i.e., a business is there to
make money. A enviro, politico, or any other social action group would not
exist, do you think? if its primary objective were to make money, would it?
-Tc
Anthony R. S. Chiaviello, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Professional Writing
Department of English
University of Houston-Downtown
One Main Street
Houston, TX 77002-0001
713.221.8520 / 713.868.3979
"Question Reality"
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> From: L.M. Dangutis[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 3:19 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Global Warming motives
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> Hi Tony,
>
> Nice to see you on line again. It seems you forgot
> that some environmental orginizations overall, do have
> short term profit worries. As with any business,
> they strive to succeed, to pay employees, to work
> on projects, whether it is more altruistic because it
> is in the name of the environment seems a matter
> of deeper concern. The other night, I watched a
> fund raiser for an orginization who I shall not
> name. The orginization was on television asking
> people to donate only 18.00 a month due to the fact
> funding was short, and they needed money to continue
> progress. The orginization showed its famous save the
> whale campaigns of the 80's. And more recently
> pictures of starving polarbears from the Artic
> which they could not save. My point is
> environmentalism to some point is business orientated
> as well. I think it is sometimes to easy to draw an
> image of the environmentalist all honest and
> altruistic,and forget they earn a living too,
> sometimes by even misinterpertation of the problems at
> hand.
> (This is just a sidebar).
>
> Li-
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