- Peter Terium: [CEO, RWE] Dear shareholders and members of the RWE Investors' Club. Ladies and gentlemen, RWE is already greener than many people think!
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- Werner Boote: I am told that I can save the world. The orangutans, the dolphins, the ocean, the rain forest, and even humankind. All I gave to do is buy 'sustainable' and 'fair' products. But that is a lie.
- Muhtar Kent: [CEO, Coca Cola] Sustainability is absolutely critical to our business survival and our growth.
- Peter Brabeck: [CEO, Nestle] The way we're using resources in a sustainable manner becomes increasingly important.
- Paul Polman: [CEO, IKEA] I'm convinced that we can create a more equitable and sustainable world for all of us.
- Werner Boote: The question is: how do we need to deal with green lies?
- Noam Chomsky: To recognize that the proposals may be worthwhile. So maybe it's good not to use plastig bags; the oceans are getting full of them. Good. But if that is being proposed by a powerful institution with the intention of showing you how nice and benevolent they are, then reject it. Follow the proposal but reject the propaganda.
- Noam Chomsky: The real problem is working very eminently to bring about the kind of institutional change which will eliminate the necessity for green lies by placing power systems under popular control.
- Noam Chomsky: If a business was owned and managed by its workforce and was part of a system of self-governing communities, then their goals could be the public good. So a democratic system in which the economy was democratized and under public control would have something like profit, meaning a company would have to provide, and sustain its workforce. But not a system in which we end up in a world with, according to the latest figures, eight people owning as much as half the population of the world.
- Kathrin Hartmann: So one of the aims should be to get rid of the transnational corporations?
- Noam Chomsky: Or of the domestic ones. In fact, any, any... just any kind of hierarchy.
- Noam Chomsky: Every issue that has ever been faced in human history, whether it's slavery, human rights, women's rights popular democracy, you pick it, whatever it is, you've got to struggle for it.
- Werner Boote: [referring to Chomsky's proposal, or dream, of a democratized economy and power systems under public control] Do you think it's something that definitely will come, that's just a matter of time?
- Noam Chomsky: No. Not definitely at all. What's likely to come, as current tendencies continue, is essentially the destruction of the possibilities for organized civilized life. And not in the far future.