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- Microsoft: Bought gold from a legal company in Brazil. This legal company however relies on illegal gold miners who have collectively destroyed huge tracts of the Amazon rain forest (one estimate puts the destruction in the order of hundreds of hectares every year), burnt down Indigenous people’s villages, and raped and killed women. Amazon was also a part of this destruction of the Amazon.
- Toyota: Pushed for the federal Environmental Protection Agency to set lower fuel efficiency as the required lower limit in the US (EPA itself has a report stating the human, economic and environmental costs are significantly higher for the lowered limit). It funded anti-EV misinformation campaigns. It manipulated Japanese lawmakers into keeping fossil fuel powered cars legal well into this century.
- Thyssenkrupp: Sells weapons to established human rights violators. Takes an active two-pronged approach of cracking down on its worker unions in the US, and simultaneously tries to end unions completely.
- Lockheed-Martin: Has a long history of releasing contaminants into the environment (especially through various explosives, sometimes during testing). Lockheed-Martin is the world’s largest defence contractor, and sells weapons to at least 50 countries. Some of them are currently engaged in violating the human rights of each other.
