The Triple Bottom Line in Businesses

In Cecil Johnson’s (2006), “Businesses ignore environmental, social bottom lines at own risk,” he describes how the triple bottom line is important in businesses. He quotes Andrew W. Savitz’s Book, “The Triple Bottom Line.” He said that the Triple Bottom Line was “economic, environmental, social” success. In economic and social success, Nike had some problems. Nike made that children worked in their sportswear factories. One problem was that children’s cost was very cheap. The other problem was human rights. He also said that GE and Exxon have problems with the environment.

I think that environmental and social successes are more important than economic success.

Firstly, government should make laws that children cannot work. Children have to study hard, because of their future. In childhood, they have a lot of dreams for their own future. Children have rights to achieve their dreams. If children work in a company during the daytime, they do not have enough time to study. They will miss many chances to get higher knowledge and gain their dreams. Using labor of children is a serious problem for their lives.

Secondly, companies should pay higher wages to employees. Nowadays, many companies move their factories to the third world. Although, because of low wages, company can earn more money, it interrupts the third world’s development. If they earn a low salary continuously, their countries cannot grow technology. I think it is a modern version of slavery. Because of that, companies ought to ensure basic wages. Also, for their life, sorts of non-government organizations have to watch strictly.

Finally, companies have to make new technology for the environment. In these days, a lot of companies’ plants are placed in developing countries. They are not concerned about pollution, because these nations are not the owner’s countries. In the age of globalization, we have to worry about the earth’s future. It is not just simple problems. If we don’t care about it, nobody will know that we can enjoy nature only until we die. So, we should find a way to protect our nature before nature is damaged.

As a result, people such as the president of a company should not be able to use child labor for their future. Also, for balanced development, laborers working in the third world have to take higher wages. We have a mission to clean the earth because of our children. So, we had better make international laws protecting ourselves from these problems.

Johnson, C. (2006, September 11). Businesses ignore environmental, social bottom lines at own risk. McClatchy Newspapers. Retrieved March 26, 2008, from Lexis-Nexis

Information that you can get in the Internet

In Jo Twist’s (2005), “Controversy blights UN net summit,” she describes that the current information society has many problems. These are that getting information and making guidelines about freedom in Internet is very hard, because many countries have different level of technology. In Tunis, many participants discussed how to solve these problems. Most participants agreed that more money was needed to help poorer countries. However there are two opinions for freedom of speech. The Chinese vice premier said, “we need effective measures to fight against criminal acts.” On the other hand, the secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union says, “Freedom in cyberspace is a pre-requisite for an information society.”

I think that sharing information is very important and it is needed to make guidelines for speaking in the Internet.

Firstly, for a balanced development, advanced nations have to give money and technologies to poorer nations. The reason is that, in an information society, knowing more information is related with developing industries. So, a lot of advanced countries must make a sort of international group and helping system. For example, it is good to give computers and set up LAN. These supports can decrease the gap of getting information between advanced countries and undeveloped countries.

Secondly, important and secret information has to be controlled by international laws. In these days, information has a lot of power. If we can get all information that we want, it can make many problems. Personal information can be used in imposture. Also, technical information is very important in companies. Especially, in a stock market, information about changes in a company can cause people to earn or lose a lot of money. So, we must manage information carefully.

Finally, we have to protect many people who are well known from everybody, such as entertainers, politicians, and even common people. We can write every time, everywhere and every word anonymously in the internet. In Korea, there was big issue about a woman who did not clean up her pet’s excreta in a subway. Some people took pictures and uploaded it onto an internet board without a mosaic. As a result, many people spoke critically of her and found out her private information. Although she had a big mistake, it was not right for her to be punished by people.

In conclusion, we have to protect poorer countries because of balanced development. Also, we have to make a kind of laws to prevent damages about society and people because by managing information, we can help a lot of people who need that.

Twist, J. (2005, November 18). Controversy blights UN net summit. BBC News. Retrieved March 21, 2008, from

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4450474.stm