report: 95% of 'green' products not green

[bcbm]

More than 95 percent of consumer products marketed as "green," including all toys surveyed, make misleading or inaccurate claims, a report to be released today says.


The number of products claiming to be green increased 73 percent since 2009, according to a survey by TerraChoice, an Ottawa-based marketing firm owned mostly by Underwriters Laboratories of Canada. The UL network does independent product-testing and certification.


"The biggest sin is making claims without any proof," said Scot Case of UL Environment, adding that companies want consumers to "just trust them." The report finds "vagueness" is the second-leading problem (a shampoo claimed it was "Mother Earth approved") in "greenwashing" - a term that refers to misleading green claims.




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[Revy]

They want people to think that a clean environment is going to happen through consumerism.

The problem is that the oil companies dominate. Renewable fuels simply don't deliver the same high profits, so they act on their greed. Did the oil spill even change ANYTHING? No. The gov't went on business as usual. It's easy for them to make promises, but they don't care about fulfilling them. There will be more oil spills, more pollution, and the environment will get worse and worse. The food and water we consume will be toxic, the air will be toxic, the climate will get worse, sea levels will rise. Is this the future we want?

I notice some people on here have some kind of anti-environmentalism axe to grind in their politics. like they conflate the green movement with primitivism, misanthropy, elitism and other such things. We just had a climate denial post too.

The SCIENTISTS are the ones saying the worst, not the politicians or activists. I still have an issue of Scientific American that shows if the ice caps keep melting, most of Florida will be underwater. And of course that means that all the islands and other low-lying parts of the world will also be.

[Amphictyonis]

Welcome to capitalism, the big snake oil pyramid scheme-

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Hey Tony, perhaps one of the ways to become wealthy is to make a bunch of fake ass video's telling people how to get wealthy?
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Forget outright fraud! How about some usury!

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Fuck capitalism :)

[Ele'ill]

Yeah- as is the same with 'dolphin safe' tuna.