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Wer in Google die Suchbegriffe „Shell“ und „Nachhaltigkeit“ eintippt, wird sehr schnell auf einen entsprechenden Teil der Website des Unternehmens geleitet. Dort heißt es gleich zu Beginn: „ Shell möchte dazu beitragen, den steigenden Bedarf auf wirtschaftlich, ökologisch und sozial verträgliche Weise zu decken.“

Aber passen Nachhaltigkeit und ein Mineralöl- und Erdgasunternehmen wie Shell wirklich zusammen? Und wirkt ihr Versprechen, der Natur gebührenden Respekt zu zollen, nicht gerade lachhaft angesichts der Pläne, in den eisigen Tiefen der Arktis nach Öl zu bohren?

Every year tens and thousands of animals are being killed just for their hide all of this is just for the fashion world.  It is believed that these animals that are being killed for their hide are not being fairly treated, some has been skinned alive and some has been killed gruesomely. Did you know that to make one fur coat you must kill at least fifty-five wild mink? Or even thirty-five ranched mink, forty sables, eleven lynx, eighteen red foxes, eleven silver foxes, one hundred chinchillas, thirty Rex rabbits, nine beavers, thirty muskrats, fifteen bobcats, twenty-five skunks, fourteen otters, one hundred twenty-five ermines, thirty possums, one hundred squirrels, or twenty-seven raccoons.

Who’s the hero? President Barack Obama or Edward Snowden? A short brainstorm. Image if someone you don’t know have a list of all your phone calls inclusive duration and frequency, maybe also the GPS position when you were calling someone, a summary of all your messages you wrote, all the timestamps you used any social media network or even have access to the microphone or camera of your smartphone at night? Isn’t it frightening? Isn’t it alarming that this is reality?

The United States is among the world’s largest sugar producers. Sugar production increased when the U.S cut ties with Cuba in the 60’s, and stopped importing sugar from them. Even more sugar began being produced since government farm subsidies were introduced in the 90’s. Since then the production of the cheap sugar alternative high fructose corn syrup has increased and started making way into more and more American foods. HFCS increased from 2.2 million tons in 1980 to an average 9.2 million tons in the 2000s. Demand for HFCS is driven by demand for products that use the syrups as inputs. For HFCS-55, the major use is in the beverage industry, which demands over 90 percent of total domestic deliveries.

Primark ist eine irische Modekette, die eine riesige Auswahl an Mode und Accessoires zum Tiefpreis anbietet und verkauft. Dabei kann es sich nicht um einen fairen Verkauf handeln.

Global media ethics is about the responsibilities of news media that is now global. Compared to traditional ethics, global media ethics are ment to strech over borders and cultures to provide a world-wide guidelines in a world where social media and the internet in general has forced us to rework the rules. With social media and the internet everyone can become a home-grown journalist and publish Facebook, Twitter and blogs. For traditional journalism internet has given access to almost unlimited amount of fast growing information.

Jeden Tag werden in der Mensa Papierbecher für das gratis Wasser verwendet. Meist sogar aufwendig bedruckt. Und das, obwohl eigentlich genügen Gläser vorhanden wären.