All these companies say they are gonna reduce their carbon footprint in the future, we dont want you to reduce it in the future WE WANT YOU TO REDUCE IT NOW
Yes, as a German, those two are the most common stores around for the most part, and they are both in a bunch of countries around the world. A view behind the curtain would be nice
Lidl pays their workers fairly well in the UK. They save money by keeping their ranges small, not fully decanting product onto the shelf (keeping it in boxes instead), and having smaller store sizes in general, reducing rent and energy costs. People are encouraged to stay loyal to the store by the constant promotions and changing ranges of interesting junk in the middle aisles.
The crazy thing is that it's not like they can't offered to be more sustainable or ethical or fair but they'd rather profit the money into their own pocket rather invest into quality so the prices on things especially necessities like food, basic clothes, and health/hygiene don't have to go up too much.
hedgehog3180 go back to history, and ideologies aside, you can see that thats not possible and is far worse than what we have. Wake up, you live in a utopia. The problem is not capitalism is people. Great businesses are all over like Tesla or Iberdrola. Smaller businesses also are great around where I live. There will always be corrupt people and nasty, it’s life. You guys like to complain a lot and Im sure you dont offer any solution and blame everything on the system. If we get the whole picture, we see that poverty rates are down by a lot since the whole world started to exchange goods, and countries like China have now much less poverty thanks to the free market. We can improve things, sure. But dont be that stupid, because by far, countries that run on capitalism are the most advanced, and the ones communist and depending the most on governments (Africa, Rusia, South America in general) are less advanced with less poverty. Wake up, and do not tell me nordic countries are dependent on government please...
@@RafaelPinto10 you haven't paid attention then, Tesla is barely better for the environment than Ford or GM. Testa won't fix climate change not even in the slightest
While your videos can be a bit overwhelming for us non-native English speakers (with the quick pace and all the statistics), I must say the production value of these videos is outstanding. It always keeps me excited for the next one!
The premise of the content in this channel is wonderful and the execution is splendid, it’s very well researched and presented, congrats. Ever since I’ve encountered your videos my view on sustainability has broaden and also improved my critical thinking over it. Thank you so much. I love this channel 💕
I totally agree with you but Walmart’s incentives keep them from turning into a much more sustainable business. And we, as consumers and investors, have a huge say in this with our consumer dollars and investor dollars. We are the ones who incentivize this type of behavior from these companies because we are the ones selecting the “two hour delivery” option instead of the standard option. Instead of going to Walmart we could select some other retailer that we identify with more. For example Costco
That's a delusion, there doesn't exist a grocery story which is actually zero carbon so you don't have a real choice. Buying at Costco is not going to solve anything it's just feeding into the same machine that causes these problems. We do have power but the idea that our dollars are like a democratic vote is one that is itself fundamentally at odds with democracy itself. If our consumer dollars are a vote then it's not a free democracy since not only do people have different amounts of wealth many don't even have the choice to spend their money outside of these companies. If I can't buy food anywhere else than Walmart then my options literally are, give them money or starve, if in a democracy your options were "vote for this party or die" then we'd rightfully call that a dictatorship. Our power is not in our wallet and the idea that it is, is an idea that is fundamentally subservient to the ruling class, since we're literally giving them our money. Our power is in organizing, it is in protest, strikes and riots. These few weeks of protests and riots in the US have spurred more change and gotten companies to do more than the previous 20 years of peaceful activism. When you buy from another store you don't make any change but when you burn down a police station the ruling class knows that shit is getting serious and they fucking listen. There are more than us of them, they'll never be able to hire enough cops and soldiers to stop the people so it's a simple conclusion really, use your actual power to threaten those in charge, either they fucking step up and do something or it's the guillotine.
Another way to make a difference is to vote for a carbon dividends plan or let your representatives know that they should champion the Baker-Schultz plan! Representatives of both parties will be open to it. Join Students for Carbon Dividends if you're a student.
@@dc6050 i think u can do it slowly and start with contacting companies and also u can have ur storage at home and also deliver urself hard but possible
Earth Hero is a site that sells sustainable products in many categories BUT they actually provide answers and stories as to how the products are made and they're impact on the Earth and people (employees, locals and their ecosystems). Right now it's only available to Americans but they are working on international shipping according to their site:)
The thing is a non live-able wage will always ruin any kind of environmental progress in the US. Walmart is accessible to so many people because to many in this country make so little money. While I wish others can choose much better options, they simply can not afford it. Walmart can only be reformed when they start losing money. Don’t get me wrong I like this video and I agree Walmart needs to do 10x more to be environmentally friendly, we need a $15 minimum wage nationally.
4:44 the company net sales worldwide from fiscal year 2006 to 2018 grew from 308 to 495 billions which means 495/308=1.6=60% growth, but their emissions only grew from 4.81 to 6.1 between 2005 and 2018 so 6.1/4.81=1.26=26% growth. I think you forgot to account for the growth of the company and it's size. I'd say they did reduce their emissions. (I have no affiliation to the company) www.statista.com/statistics/183399/walmarts-net-sales-worldwide-since-2006/
This is one of those channels that I am insanely grateful for. Although environmentally focused, every video touches how environmental issues are indeed social, racial, and economic issues, too.
Please do a video on how deliveries can be done in a sustainable way. Deliveries seem like they could be more efficient than people going to the store because of route optimisation (except for 2-hour shipping like you talked about)
I have always enjoyed the script and system of your videos. But glad you enjoy learning more about it. Your vids are my rock. I know your formula and i can know what to expect, which is such a blessing for people with anxiety like me. And i bet people on the spectrum are very thankful for that too. Love your content and insight!💕💕💕
Worker and community-owned enterprises are good recipes for better working conditions and lower local pollution, but no guarantee for general sustainability. We consumers can do a lot, perhaps even more, by sending our custom away from the likes of Wallmart. BTW, the only one-hour delivery service for groceries I used during the lockdown was by a company mostly doing take-out deliveries, using bicycle couriers (mostly students). They would simply collect my order at a grocery nearby. It is a bit more expensive, and I usually tipped the delivery guy additionally, but it was very convenient, I did not cause those delivery trucks to idle in front of my house, and I even supported those students a tiny bit.
Walmart should absolutely be held up to scrutiny, but the claims made in this video may be misleading. It may very well be true that Walmart's emissions grew, but what if those emissions were the result of Walmart absorbing business that would otherwise have gone to less efficient operations? The truth might be that Walmart actually resulted in a net decrease of emissions in the sector, while taking on a larger share of sectorside emissions on their own accounts. The same goes for 2-hour delivery. A half-filled delivery van making 20 deliveries is still more efficient than 20 mostly-empty private cars making individual round-trips delivering the same goods.
wow, if all these companies would stick to their goals, it seems we would be completely emission-free by 2030. but seriously, do they not realize that this transition takes time and work? they won't just be emission-free like that by the time 2030, or whatever year, comes around. I'd also really like to see a company being covered that does it right! It's important to shed light onto these shady companies but it gets really depressing sometimes.
wouldn't a "one stop shopping", highly reduce emissions because the customer wouldn't be multi tripping, multi day shopping and the deliveries wouldn't be many, many trucks delivering around town/city?
Wonderful video! I hate when mega companies like Walmart showboat and pretend that they care about their employees and the environment while focusing only on growth and making more money
Capitalism can work if we internalize environmental costs. Economists everywhere understand that carbon pricing would lower emissions far more drastically than regulation.
Walmart needs to ban single use plastic products. That would help reduce plastic pollution. All new plastic products need to be made from 100% recycled materials. All used plastic needs to be recycled.
there should be laws keeping companies to their puplic and private *green goals* with fines and other forms of punishment by not keeping up to their statments or backing out of them.
If you're a manufacturer, or have product stock, you can't have growth without pollution. You will always use more materials, drive further, more frequently.
Pretty much all your videos are basically Just pointing out the symptoms of our extreme consumer culture Which I’ve been saying for years baseball is not America’s pastime any more Consumption is Which is pretty sad
You should make a video on Forever 21! I've heard they use child labor to afford their cheap prices but you could also discuss why they are going out of business!
The problem with walmart is that it is being significantly subsidized by the government via food stamps and similar welfare programs, given that it only makes 3 pennies on each dollar in profits ($500 billion revenue - $485 billion spending), The $15 billion in profits for a company this size make it difficult to spend on alternative energy upgrades. Also if walmart is to become independent from government, it will not survive given that it has to spend $200 billion more to pay for all the food stamp users. However, in Toledo Ohio, the walmart appears to have a solar rooftop on it which is a step in the right direction, but I think this 2-hour shipping option is an attempt to compete with Amazon.
Isn't 2 hour shipping going to reduce greenhouse emissions in the long run, because instead of having individual consumers with their own vehicles driving to the nearest Walmart, you just have a fleet of trucks delivering to multiple houses at the same time? Greenhouse gas emissions attributed to Walmart will increase sure, but at the macro-level if you include the consumer, wouldn't it be a net benefit?
Worker and community owned business, huh? That sounds like a good idea. At least it isn't *socialism*, THAT would be a bad thing... (they're the same thing)
Going carbon free requires money. That means the price of products will rise and customers would just shift to any other company which offers the same product at a lower price even if the lower price comes with negative impact on the environment. People simply dont care that much Edit: poor people just care more about getting products for cheaper.
All delivery trucks need to be electric. No noise, no emissions, less fuel costs, less maintenance costs. All electric vehicle are the future. The sooner all transportation goes electric the better.
Electric trucks = less cargo space = more electric trucks to make up for it = more metals & mineral mining = a worst environmental impact than the original issue.
@@glen___1737 a standard truck carries 36,000kgs of cargo. Do you really think a battery pack in a cab is big enough to get a decent mileage? Electric trucks might be good locally depending on the load, but any further they'll be trash.
yo Alex well it sounds like we need to make some advancements in batteries then. Hopefully the tech will advance enough in the future that it’s a viable option.
You can't reduce your carbon by growing.......This is why governments find it hard to curb emissions..... turth is that's is not Walmart's fault or it's 2.2 million employees, it's the 1.6 billion consumers that shop there.. unfortunately it's the only game in town were I live, if the local Walmart closed, its an hour and a half drive to the next town with a grocery store....that means 1,100 residents aren't putting emissions into the atmosphere to go to the store.....
You are extremly talent in your research, and the audiovisual Art, your videos are of high quality, but the thing i am worried is that my country have gone totally to the left, the extreme socialism, and that is even worst than totally free capitalism, i like a lot your videos but i am concerned of the posibility that USA de first country of the world fall into a socialist trap too, analize the Argentinean case and its NarcoSocialism is really bad, but i feel good with the posibility of making corporations more human, more sustantiable.
All we can do right now is to vote with our money to buy sustainably as much as we can. It is very difficult especially for poor people. Extremely difficult to vote!
Generally I like the content on this channel but this video seems somewhat unfair. I'm not a fan of Walmart for many reasons and perhpas their efforts are just greenwashing. I think it would be more fair to look at their emissions on scome scaled basis (per store, or per $ of revenue or something else or several metrics) and compare them to competitors over the same time frame. Consumption inherently have some negative effect on the environment right now. And also to throw in that 'worker and community owned operations' is required to get companies to be responsible is a bit of a reach and sounds like you pushing your own opinion. It would be pretty easy to get companies to be better environmental and social stewards in a captialist systems ... make them pay if they dont, make their bottom line wither away to nothing if they dont; something like.... a carbon tax. The problem is that if there isn't a global comittment to these type of initiatives that companies just swap over to a country with less strict rules. We'll get there eventually but to proclaim that worker and community owned companies are a requirement while offering no information or examples to back up such a claim is irresponsible.
Craig Hudy your statement that this video is unfair doesn’t really make sense. It would if the video was called „how sustainable is Walmart compared to XYZ“ but this video is about this particular chain and the claims they have made about their sustainability goals. Also if it was „pretty easy“ to get companies to do stuff in a capitalist system tanntest would already be happening. Profit is always most important not just for the companies but also the ones lobbying or otherwise making profit off their growth. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, it’s an inherently unsustainable idea.
It was a good video, but yes, the use of only certain statistics I found a little disappointing - we never found out (I don't think) how their non-direct emissions have changed in the last 15 years, only now their direct emissions have increased slightly (and at a lower rate than growth I believe). Absolutely I believe companies should be doing more, but I think it's important to be as honest as possible in reporting on these issues, to show that the cause is legitimate.
One way to accomplish that while harnessing the power of capitalism instead of abolishing it would be to internalize costs, like a Carbon Dividends plan. I support Americans 4 Carbon Dividends because it will make a bigger difference than socialist legislation ever could.
There are capitalist things you can support, like the baker-schultz plan. It would do so much more good than the GND and it could be championed by conservatives and liberals.
Where do they buy their products and who makes them that they can charge next to nothing? I'm not complaining, but someone is gaining, while another is not.
Do you believe that there is still hope for humanity and for the earth knowing how big companies all over the world are destroying the earth with such tremendously large impacts?
Just the fact that Walmart gives you several plastic bags for even the smallest purchase should be indicative enough that they don't care about the planet
Well I used to work at walmart but gosh for bid, if I don't put something in a bag for a customer. The customer would end up taking it and throwing it in the bag because they want the bag to "confirm" that they purchased an item so they don't get looked at as stealing something or the comfort of having something to carry it with because they are lazy or it's just easier.
@Sir We Are About to Die Whatever the reason, the truth is most cashiers will put everything in bags without asking and most costumers will take them, of course you and me can go and ask for no bag or bring our own, but the majority won't. Walmart has the power to implement no bags/reusable bags they just don't want to do it.
Why are we car owners have to so called have emission tags and stickers and such if companies that put out so much more emissions.. Like they don't have to have "emission" tags or anything like that to decrease emissions.. Haha. What a joke.
Hang on a seccond what?? if walmarts so big how come iv never heard about it I thought it was just some supermarket in america?? Iv heard soo much about amazon apple google woolworths coles mc donalds ect but none ever talks about walmart how come?
Lost me till the end. Why do you have to have government force the change? Government isn't going to do anything because companies line the pockets of politicians. Instead consumers need to force them companies to change. Leave the bias out of your videos.
People hate paying a lot... Just deal with it, you hate giving away money for multinationals, if it was expensive you would have made a video... Why is wmart so fucking expensive??, 😩😩😩
Wal-Fart cheap??? Have you been in one to purchase ANYTHING??? Car batteries are 20% MORE than O'Reilley's. Tires are 30% more than "Mom-and-Pop" tire shops. Because of Wally-World "special sizing" name-brand grocery products are higher on a per/unit basis than the expensive grocery stores in town. Since the "bean-counters" took over running Wally-World since Sam died, I can go to ANY OTHER store and equal or beat their prices...So your premise is WRONG and everything you say after that is meaningless.
Quite don’t agree when you say their can’t be ethical companies under capitalism, I think their can’t be ethical companies under capitalism under a certain amount of PROFIT. This is why I boycott big companies and only by second hand or in small/local shops.
they put cost of what you stole on other customers, so you basically steal from your neighbors. And you will not stop stealing even if Walmart start act right. Per example: from 2006 to 2018 they had 60% growth in sales and their emissions grew only 25%, so they already started acting right, but you don`t care.
Walmart isn't cheap anymore I'm not shopping there anymore you want to charge four times more than they used to well I can go to four different places besides them now good luck Walmart you going to lose your customers to Jewel Target cut your prices in half and I'll come back
Probably the number one seller of one time use products, many of which need to increase in price to be phased out. Walmart needs to invest more in quality product development that replaces these and other goods that are destructive in our hyper-consumeristic culture. Under the capitalism-heavy system we reside in, environmental damages mirror our expectations and our spending habits represent societal collective willpower. More human-centric systems exist, but living in our reality means development and high enough expectations (user strikes in capable communities) can realistically advance corporate America. Needed a dreamer got Biden *hopefully
Does anyone have any examples of companies that are truly sustainable?
The delusion of infinite growth is inherently unsustainable.
Ecosia ? but you already made a video about it
Klean kanteen
Earth hero
I used to have a neighbor who would sell the tomatoes she grew on her trellis to the people in the street, does that count?
Perhaps look into Co-op in Sweden. They're a worker/community owned grocery chain that I found when I visited this year.
Walmart: i am going to reduce my greenhouse emissions
everybody: okay just do it
Walmart: i am going to reduce my greenhouse emissions
Sir We Are About to Die 😂😂😂
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
--Edward Abbey
All these companies say they are gonna reduce their carbon footprint in the future, we dont want you to reduce it in the future WE WANT YOU TO REDUCE IT NOW
Okay Karen.
@@Alex632 LOL
@@Alex632 ok boomer
@@AylienYu noice
Easier said than done
The script writing has gotten a lot better these past few episodes!
Dude that intro had me shook. I was like "wait is Walmart sustainable? Wtf?"
Same lol
Levi!!!! You’ve made it to one of the best channels on TH-cam 🥰
Could you investigate/explain Lidl? Lidl is basically the European version of Walmart - massive & cheap, claiming to work for a better world.
Yes! Pretty please.
it would be even more fascinating to compare the efforts of Lidl and other (European) supermarket chains at transitioning sustainable
Aldi as well!
Yes, as a German, those two are the most common stores around for the most part, and they are both in a bunch of countries around the world. A view behind the curtain would be nice
Lidl pays their workers fairly well in the UK. They save money by keeping their ranges small, not fully decanting product onto the shelf (keeping it in boxes instead), and having smaller store sizes in general, reducing rent and energy costs. People are encouraged to stay loyal to the store by the constant promotions and changing ranges of interesting junk in the middle aisles.
Probably because they pay their staff next to nothing.
Its customer service, its not exactly a high salary career.
Right
Walmart CEO work for Walmart loading truck for 6.50 in 1984 that right 1984 and they payed 6.75 in 2003
@@mikerice5298 You do know the past tense of pay is paid?
same with target. Actually any retailer that's hourly wages, not commissions.
The crazy thing is that it's not like they can't offered to be more sustainable or ethical or fair but they'd rather profit the money into their own pocket rather invest into quality so the prices on things especially necessities like food, basic clothes, and health/hygiene don't have to go up too much.
Capitalism won't fix a problem that it's caused by capitalism, thank you for saying this! Even in enviromental circles, it isn't said nearly enough
Whats your solution then?
@@kike_villa Abolish capitalism, build a system that's based on meeting everyone's needs rather than the profits of a small ruling class.
I'm an environmentalist and I don't agree. Tesla is capitalism, but it's helping the environment a lot... capitalism can be apart of the solution
hedgehog3180 go back to history, and ideologies aside, you can see that thats not possible and is far worse than what we have. Wake up, you live in a utopia. The problem is not capitalism is people. Great businesses are all over like Tesla or Iberdrola. Smaller businesses also are great around where I live. There will always be corrupt people and nasty, it’s life. You guys like to complain a lot and Im sure you dont offer any solution and blame everything on the system. If we get the whole picture, we see that poverty rates are down by a lot since the whole world started to exchange goods, and countries like China have now much less poverty thanks to the free market. We can improve things, sure. But dont be that stupid, because by far, countries that run on capitalism are the most advanced, and the ones communist and depending the most on governments (Africa, Rusia, South America in general) are less advanced with less poverty. Wake up, and do not tell me nordic countries are dependent on government please...
@@RafaelPinto10 you haven't paid attention then, Tesla is barely better for the environment than Ford or GM. Testa won't fix climate change not even in the slightest
While your videos can be a bit overwhelming for us non-native English speakers (with the quick pace and all the statistics), I must say the production value of these videos is outstanding. It always keeps me excited for the next one!
Walmart: By underpaid people, for underpaid people.
This is so true that it’s sad, lol.
The premise of the content in this channel is wonderful and the execution is splendid, it’s very well researched and presented, congrats.
Ever since I’ve encountered your videos my view on sustainability has broaden and also improved my critical thinking over it.
Thank you so much. I love this channel 💕
I totally agree with you but Walmart’s incentives keep them from turning into a much more sustainable business. And we, as consumers and investors, have a huge say in this with our consumer dollars and investor dollars. We are the ones who incentivize this type of behavior from these companies because we are the ones selecting the “two hour delivery” option instead of the standard option. Instead of going to Walmart we could select some other retailer that we identify with more. For example Costco
That's a delusion, there doesn't exist a grocery story which is actually zero carbon so you don't have a real choice. Buying at Costco is not going to solve anything it's just feeding into the same machine that causes these problems. We do have power but the idea that our dollars are like a democratic vote is one that is itself fundamentally at odds with democracy itself. If our consumer dollars are a vote then it's not a free democracy since not only do people have different amounts of wealth many don't even have the choice to spend their money outside of these companies. If I can't buy food anywhere else than Walmart then my options literally are, give them money or starve, if in a democracy your options were "vote for this party or die" then we'd rightfully call that a dictatorship. Our power is not in our wallet and the idea that it is, is an idea that is fundamentally subservient to the ruling class, since we're literally giving them our money. Our power is in organizing, it is in protest, strikes and riots. These few weeks of protests and riots in the US have spurred more change and gotten companies to do more than the previous 20 years of peaceful activism. When you buy from another store you don't make any change but when you burn down a police station the ruling class knows that shit is getting serious and they fucking listen. There are more than us of them, they'll never be able to hire enough cops and soldiers to stop the people so it's a simple conclusion really, use your actual power to threaten those in charge, either they fucking step up and do something or it's the guillotine.
@hedgehog3180 's comment is very Marxist (that usually doesn't turn out very well)
Another way to make a difference is to vote for a carbon dividends plan or let your representatives know that they should champion the Baker-Schultz plan! Representatives of both parties will be open to it. Join Students for Carbon Dividends if you're a student.
Someone needs to make a big store like Walmart and stuff like that for zero waste
easier said than done though..
Quite the imagination you got.
@@dc6050 i think u can do it slowly and start with contacting companies and also u can have ur storage at home and also deliver urself hard but possible
Would so love that! Just probably be hard cause the products are so expensive and the market isn’t that big just yet
Earth Hero is a site that sells sustainable products in many categories BUT they actually provide answers and stories as to how the products are made and they're impact on the Earth and people (employees, locals and their ecosystems). Right now it's only available to Americans but they are working on international shipping according to their site:)
I think this Channel is one of those where you know you should watch the videos more often
One of the best channels (or the best) about climate change and sustainability!!! Thanks for sharing
The thing is a non live-able wage will always ruin any kind of environmental progress in the US. Walmart is accessible to so many people because to many in this country make so little money. While I wish others can choose much better options, they simply can not afford it. Walmart can only be reformed when they start losing money. Don’t get me wrong I like this video and I agree Walmart needs to do 10x more to be environmentally friendly, we need a $15 minimum wage nationally.
I hear echo's of Bernie Sanders 🥴🥴🥴
@Sir We Are About to Die why not $100/hr after taxes? that would be much better than 15 or 20.
Quality vid CK. Keep exposing green washing practises
4:44 the company net sales worldwide from fiscal year 2006 to 2018 grew from 308 to 495 billions which means 495/308=1.6=60% growth, but their emissions only grew from 4.81 to 6.1 between 2005 and 2018 so 6.1/4.81=1.26=26% growth. I think you forgot to account for the growth of the company and it's size. I'd say they did reduce their emissions. (I have no affiliation to the company) www.statista.com/statistics/183399/walmarts-net-sales-worldwide-since-2006/
I was just going to research like you did, good point
Amazon does the same thing for their PR schemes. They kept running ads about using wind turbines.
This is one of those channels that I am insanely grateful for. Although environmentally focused, every video touches how environmental issues are indeed social, racial, and economic issues, too.
Please do a video on how deliveries can be done in a sustainable way. Deliveries seem like they could be more efficient than people going to the store because of route optimisation (except for 2-hour shipping like you talked about)
Hey!! I love your videos! Can you make a video about the efforts of China about their desertification problem?
I hate Walmart. It should be broken up like Amazon. Bring back Teddy! Time to bust some Monopolies lol.
How would a community owned business solve this problem? The community doesn’t haven’t a majority view that it is a problem in the first place.
They're driven by benefit to the community, not profit of the shareholders and upper management. Which means a fairer pay structure is possible.
Make videos on different government regulations
I have always enjoyed the script and system of your videos. But glad you enjoy learning more about it. Your vids are my rock. I know your formula and i can know what to expect, which is such a blessing for people with anxiety like me. And i bet people on the spectrum are very thankful for that too. Love your content and insight!💕💕💕
walmart does not even exist in my country (malaysia) but i watch this anyway
Same here (finland)
@@howway4451 Did you know Trump actually thought Finland was in Russia?! 🤦
@@AndreaHa Yes. Every one here is talking about and laughing about about it.
I love your videos!!!
After being rudely spoken to by a WalNut worker in 4/2021, I will NEVER, EVER step foot nor spend any $'s at any of its outlets. ⬅️ PERIOD!
I like how ur video deals with very fundamental issues with society. Oh and I especially like how you called out a liar 👍
Do Whole Foods next.
Worker and community-owned enterprises are good recipes for better working conditions and lower local pollution, but no guarantee for general sustainability. We consumers can do a lot, perhaps even more, by sending our custom away from the likes of Wallmart.
BTW, the only one-hour delivery service for groceries I used during the lockdown was by a company mostly doing take-out deliveries, using bicycle couriers (mostly students). They would simply collect my order at a grocery nearby. It is a bit more expensive, and I usually tipped the delivery guy additionally, but it was very convenient, I did not cause those delivery trucks to idle in front of my house, and I even supported those students a tiny bit.
Thank you for your awesome video.
Love your videos
Yup walmart was involved in the dhaka garment factory collapse.
Walmart should absolutely be held up to scrutiny, but the claims made in this video may be misleading. It may very well be true that Walmart's emissions grew, but what if those emissions were the result of Walmart absorbing business that would otherwise have gone to less efficient operations? The truth might be that Walmart actually resulted in a net decrease of emissions in the sector, while taking on a larger share of sectorside emissions on their own accounts. The same goes for 2-hour delivery. A half-filled delivery van making 20 deliveries is still more efficient than 20 mostly-empty private cars making individual round-trips delivering the same goods.
Down with the mega corps!
wow, if all these companies would stick to their goals, it seems we would be completely emission-free by 2030.
but seriously, do they not realize that this transition takes time and work? they won't just be emission-free like that by the time 2030, or whatever year, comes around.
I'd also really like to see a company being covered that does it right! It's important to shed light onto these shady companies but it gets really depressing sometimes.
wouldn't a "one stop shopping", highly reduce emissions because the customer wouldn't be multi tripping, multi day shopping and the deliveries wouldn't be many, many trucks delivering around town/city?
No because you will always forget that one other thing... multiple trips are a fact😎
*Bill Hanna* Shopping list *hello there*
Wonderful video! I hate when mega companies like Walmart showboat and pretend that they care about their employees and the environment while focusing only on growth and making more money
Capitalism can work if we internalize environmental costs. Economists everywhere understand that carbon pricing would lower emissions far more drastically than regulation.
Walmart needs to ban single use plastic products. That would help reduce plastic pollution.
All new plastic products need to be made from 100% recycled materials. All used plastic needs to be recycled.
Great video, as always! Not surprised they fail at about every level...
there should be laws keeping companies to their puplic and private *green goals* with fines and other forms of punishment by not keeping up to their statments or backing out of them.
If you're a manufacturer, or have product stock, you can't have growth without pollution. You will always use more materials, drive further, more frequently.
Pretty much all your videos are basically Just pointing out the symptoms of our extreme consumer culture Which I’ve been saying for years baseball is not America’s pastime any more Consumption is Which is pretty sad
A carbon pricing plan could change that bottom line and incentivize businesses to actually become more sustainable
You should make a video on Forever 21! I've heard they use child labor to afford their cheap prices but you could also discuss why they are going out of business!
Sophie he made a vid on fast fashion (forever 21 h & m primark boohoo peacocks zara and pretty little things )
Why is Walmart so cheap ?
Because the quality of the products they sell is even cheaper !!!
How is Nintendo helping environment so far?
The problem with walmart is that it is being significantly subsidized by the government via food stamps and similar welfare programs, given that it only makes 3 pennies on each dollar in profits ($500 billion revenue - $485 billion spending), The $15 billion in profits for a company this size make it difficult to spend on alternative energy upgrades. Also if walmart is to become independent from government, it will not survive given that it has to spend $200 billion more to pay for all the food stamp users. However, in Toledo Ohio, the walmart appears to have a solar rooftop on it which is a step in the right direction, but I think this 2-hour shipping option is an attempt to compete with Amazon.
Their "meat" department is Soylent Green
I like this channel
Isn't 2 hour shipping going to reduce greenhouse emissions in the long run, because instead of having individual consumers with their own vehicles driving to the nearest Walmart, you just have a fleet of trucks delivering to multiple houses at the same time? Greenhouse gas emissions attributed to Walmart will increase sure, but at the macro-level if you include the consumer, wouldn't it be a net benefit?
The buying power of a company with 5k stores means WM can buy cheaper and more quantity
Thanks :)))
Worker and community owned business, huh? That sounds like a good idea. At least it isn't *socialism*, THAT would be a bad thing...
(they're the same thing)
imagine being this stupid lmao
Capitalism also has climate solutions, look up Americans 4 Carbon Dividends!
8:26 ""there are no ehtical companies under capitalism
Soviet Union "......."
Going carbon free requires money. That means the price of products will rise and customers would just shift to any other company which offers the same product at a lower price even if the lower price comes with negative impact on the environment.
People simply dont care that much
Edit: poor people just care more about getting products for cheaper.
Walmart is the worst place in the world to work.
Gooooood stuff
All delivery trucks need to be electric. No noise, no emissions, less fuel costs, less maintenance costs.
All electric vehicle are the future. The sooner all transportation goes electric the better.
Electric trucks = less cargo space = more electric trucks to make up for it = more metals & mineral mining = a worst environmental impact than the original issue.
yo Alex why is there less cargo space? The battery would be in the actual truck part. The trailer could stay the same size.
@@glen___1737 a standard truck carries 36,000kgs of cargo. Do you really think a battery pack in a cab is big enough to get a decent mileage? Electric trucks might be good locally depending on the load, but any further they'll be trash.
Real Engineering has a good video that explains why an eletric plane is not viable and i think the same idea applies to trucks
yo Alex well it sounds like we need to make some advancements in batteries then. Hopefully the tech will advance enough in the future that it’s a viable option.
You can't reduce your carbon by growing.......This is why governments find it hard to curb emissions..... turth is that's is not Walmart's fault or it's 2.2 million employees, it's the 1.6 billion consumers that shop there.. unfortunately it's the only game in town were I live, if the local Walmart closed, its an hour and a half drive to the next town with a grocery store....that means 1,100 residents aren't putting emissions into the atmosphere to go to the store.....
What is a good alternative to Walmart which does not extort cheap labor and does minimal harmful environmental practices?
You are extremly talent in your research, and the audiovisual Art, your videos are of high quality, but the thing i am worried is that my country have gone totally to the left, the extreme socialism, and that is even worst than totally free capitalism, i like a lot your videos but i am concerned of the posibility that USA de first country of the world fall into a socialist trap too, analize the Argentinean case and its NarcoSocialism is really bad, but i feel good with the posibility of making corporations more human, more sustantiable.
Good observation! Capitalism can also solve climate change. Look up the Baker-Schultz Plan!
All we can do right now is to vote with our money to buy sustainably as much as we can. It is very difficult especially for poor people. Extremely difficult to vote!
We can also encourage our representatives (especially conservatives) to champion a Carbon Dividends plan!
Generally I like the content on this channel but this video seems somewhat unfair. I'm not a fan of Walmart for many reasons and perhpas their efforts are just greenwashing. I think it would be more fair to look at their emissions on scome scaled basis (per store, or per $ of revenue or something else or several metrics) and compare them to competitors over the same time frame. Consumption inherently have some negative effect on the environment right now. And also to throw in that 'worker and community owned operations' is required to get companies to be responsible is a bit of a reach and sounds like you pushing your own opinion. It would be pretty easy to get companies to be better environmental and social stewards in a captialist systems ... make them pay if they dont, make their bottom line wither away to nothing if they dont; something like.... a carbon tax. The problem is that if there isn't a global comittment to these type of initiatives that companies just swap over to a country with less strict rules. We'll get there eventually but to proclaim that worker and community owned companies are a requirement while offering no information or examples to back up such a claim is irresponsible.
Craig Hudy your statement that this video is unfair doesn’t really make sense. It would if the video was called „how sustainable is Walmart compared to XYZ“ but this video is about this particular chain and the claims they have made about their sustainability goals. Also if it was „pretty easy“ to get companies to do stuff in a capitalist system tanntest would already be happening. Profit is always most important not just for the companies but also the ones lobbying or otherwise making profit off their growth. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, it’s an inherently unsustainable idea.
It was a good video, but yes, the use of only certain statistics I found a little disappointing - we never found out (I don't think) how their non-direct emissions have changed in the last 15 years, only now their direct emissions have increased slightly (and at a lower rate than growth I believe).
Absolutely I believe companies should be doing more, but I think it's important to be as honest as possible in reporting on these issues, to show that the cause is legitimate.
One way to accomplish that while harnessing the power of capitalism instead of abolishing it would be to internalize costs, like a Carbon Dividends plan. I support Americans 4 Carbon Dividends because it will make a bigger difference than socialist legislation ever could.
Cheap? As a German I was shocked how expensive Walmart is compared to German stores.
Walmart is a terrible place to work. It destroyed the small town my grandma lived in.
OCC chanel is all about environment but why they mention regulation. Its like influencing the audience to support something green new deal.
There are capitalist things you can support, like the baker-schultz plan. It would do so much more good than the GND and it could be championed by conservatives and liberals.
There is no democracy without socialism, let's hope we can gain some power to force their hand at least
#WalmartSucks Maybe Sunrise Movement and others will shame these scammers.
Where do they buy their products and who makes them that they can charge next to nothing? I'm not complaining, but someone is gaining, while another is not.
Humans; "better place for all of us" → -animals-
Corona virus; Yes
Trust Walmart to take care of its own trash is like trust Amazon to take care of trash, both are not trustworthy
Do you believe that there is still hope for humanity and for the earth knowing how
big companies all over the world are destroying the earth with such tremendously large impacts?
Just the fact that Walmart gives you several plastic bags for even the smallest purchase should be indicative enough that they don't care about the planet
Well I used to work at walmart but gosh for bid, if I don't put something in a bag for a customer. The customer would end up taking it and throwing it in the bag because they want the bag to "confirm" that they purchased an item so they don't get looked at as stealing something or the comfort of having something to carry it with because they are lazy or it's just easier.
@Sir We Are About to Die Whatever the reason, the truth is most cashiers will put everything in bags without asking and most costumers will take them, of course you and me can go and ask for no bag or bring our own, but the majority won't. Walmart has the power to implement no bags/reusable bags they just don't want to do it.
15 Walmart share owners diliked the vidio
Yeah they are the only big store that sells cheap stuff but most of them are crap so youget what you paid for it
Why are we car owners have to so called have emission tags and stickers and such if companies that put out so much more emissions.. Like they don't have to have "emission" tags or anything like that to decrease emissions.. Haha. What a joke.
They could have emissions prices under a Carbon Dividends plan, though.
Hang on a seccond what??
if walmarts so big how come iv never heard about it I thought it was just some supermarket in america??
Iv heard soo much about amazon apple google woolworths coles mc donalds ect but none ever talks about walmart how come?
No Idea, but they are bigger then most of the companies you mentioned. They are essentially amazon but an in person store
Could you make a more positive video? These negative videos aren’t helping my climate anxiety. Please??
damn OCC really said "fuck capitalism"
their cheap prices put small businesees out of business.
by using genrtrification
Down with capitalism
Ah Aldi (german stores) are cheaper
And simpler
drove pass Walmart and it was a war Zone trash all over the place homeless move in fights all the time
and 50 new camera and violet crime every day
Why Walmart is so cheap.
Emissions
Human Greed is endless and fucked up
some of the worst polluted sites are either socialist or former socialist
Lost me till the end. Why do you have to have government force the change? Government isn't going to do anything because companies line the pockets of politicians. Instead consumers need to force them companies to change. Leave the bias out of your videos.
People hate paying a lot... Just deal with it, you hate giving away money for multinationals, if it was expensive you would have made a video... Why is wmart so fucking expensive??, 😩😩😩
@Sir We Are About to Die that's you not the mass market
Wal-Fart cheap??? Have you been in one to purchase ANYTHING??? Car batteries are 20% MORE than O'Reilley's. Tires are 30% more than "Mom-and-Pop" tire shops. Because of Wally-World "special sizing" name-brand grocery products are higher on a per/unit basis than the expensive grocery stores in town. Since the "bean-counters" took over running Wally-World since Sam died, I can go to ANY OTHER store and equal or beat their prices...So your premise is WRONG and everything you say after that is meaningless.
Quite don’t agree when you say their can’t be ethical companies under capitalism, I think their can’t be ethical companies under capitalism under a certain amount of PROFIT. This is why I boycott big companies and only by second hand or in small/local shops.
Also, under capitalism we can internalize costs like in a Carbon Dividends plan.
That's capitalism.
this why we steal from Walmart ✨💗 and will until they act right
they put cost of what you stole on other customers, so you basically steal from your neighbors. And you will not stop stealing even if Walmart start act right. Per example: from 2006 to 2018 they had 60% growth in sales and their emissions grew only 25%, so they already started acting right, but you don`t care.
Walmart isn't cheap anymore I'm not shopping there anymore you want to charge four times more than they used to well I can go to four different places besides them now good luck Walmart you going to lose your customers to Jewel Target cut your prices in half and I'll come back
Probably the number one seller of one time use products, many of which need to increase in price to be phased out. Walmart needs to invest more in quality product development that replaces these and other goods that are destructive in our hyper-consumeristic culture. Under the capitalism-heavy system we reside in, environmental damages mirror our expectations and our spending habits represent societal collective willpower. More human-centric systems exist, but living in our reality means development and high enough expectations (user strikes in capable communities) can realistically advance corporate America. Needed a dreamer got Biden *hopefully