In my years of naiveté, the words "big business" meant industry, lots of jobs, lots of money, philanthropy. Corporate America was dependable, responsible. Men and women chose a career, worked until retirement, and then lived off their pensions. Corporations were benevolent structures, the backbone of the American economy.
Say you drive an older automobile that gets pretty good gas mileage. You want to step up to a new Prius or some other beautiful, technologically advanced hybrid automobile. But green wisdom dictates that one should use the older car for as long as possible before purchasing a new vehicle, and preferably a used one at that. Manufacturing new vehicles is a significantly environmentally taxing process. A lot of environmentally damaging chemicals go into the production of automobiles.
