Jam Band Hypocrite

I used to enjoy the work of a particular jam band that seemed to have a pro-environmental aspect to their lyrics, and I was on the message board for fans of this band. There was a person who posted on the board often who was an attorney for a major corporation that is perhaps the biggest polluter on the planet.

You don't have to be an environmental activist to like this band or participate on its message boards to be sure, but this individual took a grandiose pro-environmental stance and even started a small non-profit that solicits donations that he uses to implement small scale, pet, boutique environmental projects. This is good, but the company that he is paid to defend is reportedly going to be sued by Erin Brockovich's law firm for causing serious illness to scores of people in Australia. This is just another in the long line of horrible transgressions that this company repeats time and time again.

This individual is still actively soliciting funds for his "pro-environment" organization on this message board and at shows as though he is some sort of environmentalist when in reality he makes his living defending the actions of one of the most insipid entities in terms of environmental harm that exist anywhere on the the face of the globe.

That you choose to use your law degree to defend polluters who cause pain, sickness, and disease to innocent people is one thing, but to run around like a champion of the environment at jam band shows with your tye-dye on or whatever is just sickening to me. We all have to make a living, but how arrogant can a person be?

You can't have it both ways. Assuming he still holds the same job, to try to be highly visible and respected as a "kind" environmental philanthropist in the jam band community while you are by day preparing the case against Brockovich is just despicable.