Increasing Social Responsibility

With technology’s innovative handreaching further and further every yearinto the public conscience, corporationsare being placed under an increasingly

refined microscope.

As a result, it would seem that corporate socialresponsibility is becoming more prevalent, moreuniversal, and quite frankly, more effective. Of

course, this is not to say that the issue ofcorporate social responsibility has been solved inits entirety by any means. It is merely to say that

progress is being made.

Case in point, climate change.

In December, massive conglomeratesbrainstormed ways in which to combat and

postpone impending changes to our planet. Backat the COP21 global climate conference in Paris, a

surprising 114 companies committed to “takingaction” and to reducing GHG emissions overall.

This coming together ofsuch massive capitalisticorganizations is hopefully

illustrative of a largertrend, a sort of social

partnership.

As LGBT, for example, becomes amainstream movement, companies

are not just voicing their support, butactually acting in kind. H&M went sofar as to initiate a campaign made up

of exclusively transgender models.

Risking sales to voice concernis not exactly a commonattribute of profit-driven

organizations, and yet, in 2015it exists.

Take for example the fact thatApple’s employees in China still work

in virtual slavery, or more recentlyMartin Shkreli’s inexcusable

behavior.

This all said, there isstill much to be done.

Yet, while the rumor-millrevolves around inaccuraciesand provocative false claims

concerning the world’s currentbehavior, it is refreshing toreflect on the growing set of

facts that indicate we areheading in the right direction.