Why Can't Anybody be as Green as They Seem

Like most people in the class today, I was extremely impressed with Bill McDonough and the initiatives he described in the video that was presented. His passion for the subject, and astute knowledge of green practices, were clearly evident while watching. I was very interested in finding more information about the cradle to cradle cities that he had designed for the Chinese and went on a Google-led quest right as class broke up.

What I found was a lot of good propositions and developments that William McDonough had been a part of but also many dismayed organizations that he had worked with over the years. A few articles had not-so-nice things to say about the man.

The image of Mr. McDonough that is portrayed through these outside sources is far from what I thought; portrayed as a man that has selfish interests in heart and claims untruthful things about his past business partners. Why can't anybody be what they seem? I am frustrated with the portrayed images and excellence of people that are eroded so easily with just a simple Google search. One thing that has become extremely depressing and disenfranchising through the actual study of environmentalism and other social justice-type missions is the innate human flaws that permeate. An overarching shadow of greed, transgression, or insincerity tends to follow these once noble pursuits. It is so easy for me to see the fatalist views of youth in our culture, what else are we expected to think? Without people able to cover their tracks as well as they once did, forms of the objective truths in this world are finally being brought to attention and it is heartbreaking. Many seemingly innocent organizations and institutions have been sullied by the flaws and foibles of high-iconic figures within them; take a look around. Religious zealots preaching the existence of a 'hell' to be saved from have created that on Earth for countless sexually molested children; the atrocities hidden by the veil of ignorance created by their once-faultless image. People shouldn't be allowed to hide behind false sugar coated securities and claim to be something they aren't. Until the evils of man are espoused from social institutions, it will always be hard for me to put any faith in something man-made.
This is more of a rant than anything, and features blurbs from sources that I didn't provide. I apologize for that, I guess the point is to not just trust everything you see once or even twice, there is often more lurking in the background than you will ever know.