ABSTRACT
Like scientists in general, climate scholars emphasize the need for patience in undertaking and understanding their work, which relies on the steady accumulation of data and progressive projections from it, based on flexible modeling. When greenhouse gases, environmental racism, global warming, and environmental imperialism appeared on the agenda, "pollution" transcended national boundaries. It became ontological, threatening the very earth that gives and sustains life, and doing so in demographically unequal ways. Since the 1960s, the discourse of CSR has developed to cover economic, ethical, legal, and philanthropic business practices. The problem with implementing conservative/African American/indigenous notions of stewardship, or acknowledging that nature may be so transformed by technologies that it undoes those very technologies and their conditions of existence, is that both CSR and public policy lack a fundamental critique of capitalist growth as an ideology. Sustainability has become a watchword for compromise, and greenwashing one of its core tools.
