The good: Wal-Mart is greatly reducing its carbon emissions relative to sales
The bad: Wal-Mart continues to grow, more than offsetting its emissions reductions
Wal-Mart contends that its absolute growth is probably better than alternative, because of the less-efficient sales of other vendors that it is replacing. I suppose they have a point. My initial reason for not liking them many years ago, now proven to hold true for various other industries that we now own as well, is that they were too big to begin with and caused a lot of societal damage as a result of their problems. Still, if Wal-Mart must grow then at least it is growing more efficiently.
Gunther also took the liberty of including a few graphs from Wal-Mart's website:
Holy chartjunk, Batman. Edward Tufte died inside when this was released. I know there are a bunch of cool options in Excel and most other analytical programs, but please stay away from them!
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