Everyone who has access to Netflix should watch the incredibly well made film, “Dark Waters.” You will learn in great detail how DuPont has betrayed the entire world!
If you don’t have access to Netflix, “The Guardian” has written an excellent summary on the history of DuPont’s creation, cover-up and the current harm being caused by Forever Chemicals.
DuPont’s behavior is a very good example of sociopathy.
According to the eminent Cleveland Clinic there are 11 common traits to sociopathy:
- Not understanding the difference between right and wrong.
- Not respecting the feelings and emotions of others.
- Constant lying or deception.
- Being callous.
- Difficulty recognizing emotion.
- Manipulation.
- Arrogance.
- Violating the rights of others through dishonest actions.
- Impulsiveness.
- Risk-taking.
- Difficulty appreciating the negative aspects of their behavior.
Which leads me to another important point. If a huge company, like DuPont, can keep secret for decades a family of chemicals so harmful that the EPA has recently stated:
“There is no safe level of exposure to PFAS without risk of health impacts, and it will require that public water utilities test for six different types of PFAS chemicals to reduce exposure in drinking water,”
then how in world can we trust anyone who wants to make huge amounts money from harming the rest of us?
For example, many wealthy people are opening up their checkbooks for Tyrant Trump and his gang of miscreants BECAUSE they believe they will make a lot more money. Who cares about freedom or Democracy or the Rule of Law or a livable environment?
Either through enormous tax cuts for those who need them least or devastating rollbacks of environmental regulations or old fashioned sweetheart deals, these wealthy sociopaths will support fascism as long as it benefits their pocketbooks!
It’s important that when we come across evil in the workplace (or anywhere else) we, at the very least, don’t make the situation worse by collaborating. And, if we are able, we report evildoing to someone who can do something about the situation, like a good lawyer.
Think of all the people over the decades at DuPont who knew about the danger of Forever Chemicals and didn’t do a damn thing about it, or worse yet, were collaborators! Don’t let that happen to you!
