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Who really rules our planet?

Michael D. Paker, CEO of Dow Inc, is wanted for crimes against the planet. Enlarge Image

Dow is wanted for crimes against the planet

Michael D. Parker and Dow Chemical Company are corporate scoundrels of the worst kind. They were forced to clean up a toxic mess at home in the US, but won't clean up one of the deadliest chemical spills on the planet in Bhopal, India. Someone is getting away with murder. Governments must agree on legally binding rules at the Earth Summit next week to ensure sustainable development and hold corporations accountable for their actions.

Exxon's Lee Raymond is WANTED for crimes against the climate. Enlarge Image

Exxon is wanted for outrageous crimes against the planet

Lee Raymond and Exxon are the Godfathers of corporate environmental crime. They have built up an unfathomable empire at the cost of our environment. They influence governments to get their own way, leaving the charred remains of international treaties in their wake. Their head honcho Raymond knows no bounds that money can’t remove.

Norman Askew, Chief Executive of BNFL, is wanted for crimes against the planet. Enlarge Image

BNFL is wanted for crimes against the planet and the people of Sellafield

Norman Askew, chief executive of British Nuclear Fuels has a skewed perspective. He is "delighted" by nuclear power expansion, even as people living around the Sellafield nuclear plant die from unusually high rates of cancer. Askew and government owned British Nuclear Fuels are also violating countries national sovereignty around the world as they ship plutonium through national waters against countries’ permissions. The warrant for their arrest is long overdue.

Hendrik A. Verfaillie and Monsanto are wanted for crimes of genetic pollution. Enlarge Image

Monsanto are WANTED for crimes against the environment

Long time corporate scoundrels Monsanto are WANTED for their crimes against the planet. It started innocently enough with the production of Agent Orange for military use in Vietnam. Then came PCBs and Dioxin. Now they are after our food. Their goal: global food supply domination.

Greenfreeze and Solar Chill on display at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg, Setpember 2002. Enlarge Image

Imitate our actions, not our words

They seemed innocent enough. Just little business-card sized pamphlets, small enough to be slipped into the wallet of any delegate, asking one simple question at the preparatory meetings for the Earth Summit in Bali: 'Why are you here?' We answered our own question with a four-point checklist of action needed to save our world.

Our activist hangs from a bridge spanning oil pipes from the Sapref oil facility operated by Shell and BP. The activists deployed small banners demanding clean energy on the last day of the Earth Summit meeting in Johannesburg. Enlarge Image

US jeered, Summit denounced

While the Earth Summit has been a disaster in its official conclusions, it's at least rewarding to see that the international community hasn't been fooled by rhetoric. Today was another day of action in protest of inaction. Inside and outside the halls of Sandton, there has been a rousing challenge to US claims that it has behaved as a responsible planetary citizen here in Johannesburg.

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