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Increasing Social Responsibility
With technology’s innovative handreaching further and further every yearinto the public conscience, corporationsare being placed under an increasingly
refined microscope.
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As a result, it would seem that corporate socialresponsibility is becoming more prevalent, moreuniversal, and quite frankly, more effective. Of
course, this is not to say that the issue ofcorporate social responsibility has been solved inits entirety by any means. It is merely to say that
progress is being made.
Case in point, climate change.
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In December, massive conglomeratesbrainstormed ways in which to combat and
postpone impending changes to our planet. Backat the COP21 global climate conference in Paris, a
surprising 114 companies committed to “takingaction” and to reducing GHG emissions overall.
This coming together ofsuch massive capitalisticorganizations is hopefully
illustrative of a largertrend, a sort of social
partnership.
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As LGBT, for example, becomes amainstream movement, companies
are not just voicing their support, butactually acting in kind. H&M went sofar as to initiate a campaign made up
of exclusively transgender models.
Risking sales to voice concernis not exactly a commonattribute of profit-driven
organizations, and yet, in 2015it exists.
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Take for example the fact thatApple’s employees in China still work
in virtual slavery, or more recentlyMartin Shkreli’s inexcusable
behavior.
This all said, there isstill much to be done.
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Yet, while the rumor-millrevolves around inaccuraciesand provocative false claims
concerning the world’s currentbehavior, it is refreshing toreflect on the growing set of
facts that indicate we areheading in the right direction.