Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard: ‘Denying climate change is evil’

The octogenarian entrepreneur, who prefers gardening to meetings, says capitalism is destroying earth

“I’d like to see an end to public corporations because we’re not going to revolutionise them, we’re not going to change them”

Our best hope for change lies with consumers, Chouinard maintains: 

“You’ve got to change the consumers first and then the corporations will follow and then government will follow the corporations. They [governments] are last in line.”