In devastation, there is opportunity

Wall Street financialist Carlton Brown said in an interview which is now part of a documentary called The Corporation that immediately after the events of September 11, there was a huge excitement in trading within gold sector. Many of the big shots doubled their profit in a matter of hours.

Also Brown said that oil sector was extremely pleased when Iraq started burning some oil wells during 1991 Gulf war. In fact the oil and gold sector wished Saddam would make more troubles. Brown, perhaps unknowingly admits how evil corporations are when it comes to profit.

Yesterday, CBC Radio's program; "The Current", was introducing the Canadian made documentary which is produced by British Columbia producer, Mike Achbar and his co-producer Jennifer Abbott.

The documentary also speaks with Ray Anderson, 20 year CEO of "Interface, Inc", one of the largest carpet manufacturer of the world. In it, Mr. Anderson regretfully admits the environmental devastation that most of the big firms have brought to the world. His change of heart, as he said, came after reading a book from Paul Hawkins called "Ecology of .... (Didn't catch the rest).

The documentary also features many more interviews with CEO's and top-level executives from some of the worlds largest corporations, representing a wide range of industries, including: oil (Shell), pharmaceuticals (Pfizer),computers (IBM), tires (Goodyear), carpets (Interface), public relations (Burson Marsteller), branding (Landor), and advertising (Initiative); as well as critical thinkers: Noam Chomsky, Peter Drucker, Milton Friedman, Naomi Klein, Mark Kingwell, Vandana Shiva, and muckraking filmmaker Michael Moore.

This documentary which currently is on only a few theatre stages in Toronto (and perhaps a few more Canadian Cities) sounded so true to me that I would definitely like to see it. Based on what I heard, I would absolutely recommend watching this documentary to the readers of this blog.