Changing the system from within rather than deserting: social and environmental engagement of companies attracts young people
At a time when calls for the “desertion” of businesses and occupations that are incompatible with the ecological emergency are flourishing, many young people are turning to the corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSR) services, which have been booming in recent years.
Standing in front of an assembly of some two hundred members of the association Collège des directeurs de développement durable (C3D), which brings together those responsible for sustainable development from almost as many companies of all sizes, Thibaud, 27, has the verb up: Why don’t your bosses move as fast as you’d like and they should? Because they have to kick their ass to do it. This is not to say that reformism is wrong or that what you do is wrong, but now a revolution is necessary and inevitable…”
The stage takes place in the heart of summer at the GoodPlanet Foundation, in the Bois de Boulogne (16th arrondissement of Paris), which hosts the annual C3D conference. On the one hand, employees are convinced that the social and environmental responsibility (CSR) or sustainable development services in which they work are not “ancillary”. and contribute to responding to environmental challenges by reviewing the activity and business model of companies; on the other, Thibaud, young activist of the environmental collective Dernière Rénovation. He came to remind the first of the urgent need to act in the face of the environmental crisis. We no longer have time to take the time for slow change and conviction, as they do, he said, as an aside. If they are really sensitive to environmental issues, they have to resist in or out of the company.”
Once is not customary, this speaking is not done in the form of happening, as the young collective is used to, but at the invitation of Fabrice Bonnifet. Charismatic president of the C3D, the latter has relatively radical comments on the urgency of the ecological transition of companies, given his exposed position of responsible for sustainable development of the Bouygues group.