The Value of Sarcasm
Sarcasm does have a way of driving the point home. After three days of intense discussions and debates–featuring stalwarts like Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield Farms and Majora Carter, founder of nonprofit environmental justice solutions corporation Sustainable South Bronx, and vocal environmental activist–the economic reality that forms the background for conferences like Net Impact 2010 was perhaps best summed by a veteran of the education trade.
In what he called his “10 Commandments,” Professor Thomas Neil Gladwin set out to confront his audience with a piece of realism: Status quo will kill us. Replete with sarcasm and enunciated ridicule for Wall Street, Gladwin, who is the professor of sustainable enterprise at the University of Michigan, and the director of the University’s Erb Institute, put forth commandments that serve less as advice to follow and more as an indictment of the current state of business. He also issued a wake-up call...
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