Eco-Exploitation of Children

This is just bloody outrageous.

Let's see why this is VERY wrong.

First, they are using children to protest topics they neither understand nor have the intellect to conceive.

Second, Being impressionable, you can tell them something is good and something is bad, but with no perspective this is just exploitation.

Third, this is using public funds to perform protests that takes a political stand that schools should not be allowed. Did all of the parents of these children agree with this political statement? I'm dubious.

Fourth, The television coverage showed adults telling the children they were heroes. Awarding an act they didn't understand. What does that tell you?

Fifth, Look at this statement:

“Today, young rainforest heroes from around the world are reminding JP Morgan Chase that its most important stakeholders are future generations,” said Tracy Solum, director of Rainforests in the Classroom, a program of Rainforest Action Network. “This is education in action, and these are kids the Earth can count on. These posters represent the wisdom and creativity of a new generation inspired to protect the Earth.”

“Children around the world are asking JP Morgan Chase to invest in their future by doing its part to protect the world's last remaining rainforests,” said Paula Healy, an elementary school teacher in Fairfield County, Connecticut. “Earth is on loan to us from future generations, and these students know the value of protecting their natural inheritance.”

Inspired? Inspired to protect the earth? Inspiration requires knowledgeable decisions and an understanding of all portions of a topic. Did these children understand why they were protesting JPMorgan? I think that they are capable of understanding that protecting the rainforests is a good thing. But do they understand why they are protesting this company?

This obviously is exploitation. You're waving children in front of a company to make a message. The children don't understand that they are being used for this groups end game. They also give this as the excuse for the protest and thus must be the reason for the exploitation.

JP Morgan Chase is the largest U.S.-based bank still operating without a comprehensive environmental policy.

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calling on the world's second largest bank to keep its commitment and live up to environmental standards set by Citigroup and Bank of America earlier this year.

If I believed this was an honest protest, the parents should be doing it with their children. They would then be indicating the parents understanding of the issue and who is going to benefit from the change in corporate policy.

Since the children are the protest group, this isn't like showing a learned and understood statement. JPMorgan doesn't have a environmental policy, and that they aren't meeting a commitment to meet standards set by other banks. It's not that they are actively cutting down rainforests or intentionally supporting companies that do. Its that they don't have a policy. Talk about protesting the vague.

Look at the site and look at the news.