Ah, multinational corporations – they’re just like us! They have their own hopes and dreams and quietly simmering psychopathic tendencies. Or, in some cases, the simmering is not done so quietly. John Ashton, the UK’s former climate change envoy has just accused Shell and its oil and gas counterparts of basically being the Patrick Bateman of international business. In an open letter to Shell’s chief executive, Ashton wrote: “You and your peers cannot complain if society increasingly comes to see in your behaviour the characteristic marks of the professional narcissist, paranoiac, and psychopath.” Well, I mean, wake up and smell the fossil fuel! Shell burns stuff for a living. Its raison d’etre has always pretty much been to set the world on fire, and not in a good way. It’s named after the hard, calcareous, outer covering of a mollusc. It rhymes with “hell.” All in all, it’s not the sort of highly profitable, global conglomerate you would naturally be BFFs with. But, then again, does that really matter?
Related: Open letter to Shell's Ben van Beurden from John Ashton
Nobody really sets out to become the 'Mugabe of beers' or the 'Margaret Thatcher of fast-moving consumer goods'
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