For too long I have stood idly by while Eagle columnist Dorian Key has waged a reactionary holy war on our "latte-liberal university campus," while hiding behind some skewed semblance of "economics." What he espouses in his Oct. 23 editorial amounts to greenwashing. Greenwashing means that a company, realizing that green is profitable, tries to change its image to seem more sustainable while doing nothing to change their ways.
I sincerely hope that the Big Oil dinosaurs fail to adapt to the changing sustainability dynamic and become extinct. Companies that have been born green, who produce their products with sustainability in mind, will take their place. It is up to consumers, the government and new green enterprises to force this change.
So I entreat my fellow AU peers: Be on the lookout for greenwashing! We should not give Big Oil a free ride for denying climate change, and we should not let politicians get away with inaction. Eager preprofessionals who find "protesting and sign-waving" hardly attractive will never be trusted by the real environmentalists who put science above profit.
Drew Veysey Sophomore, CAS
