When Tennant first walked into Robert's law firm in 1998 and put a large box of evidence in front of him, Robert didn't know what it meant to him. Not long ago, he was promoted to a partner in a law firm, and he just had his first child. Everything in his life was developing in a satisfactory direction, except that he occasionally felt a little out of tune with the elitism around him. For example, at dinner parties, he always needs his wife Sarah by his side to ease his nervousness, and Sarah, a former lawyer, has both sides for him. But no one can deny Robert's excellent work. In the field of chemical industry he is good at, he has been appreciated by some big companies. Cooperation with these companies will make his career smooth and annoy them. Who will ruin their jobs. But a farmer from Parkersburg changed everything, or he awakened the conscience of a lawyer. Robert never regretted letting this long lawsuit against the chemical giant run through his career and the power disparity with the giant Goliath. The struggle drained almost all of his energy. He tried to shake a mountain and become Sisyphus in the eyes of others. The price he paid was huge, but he chose to walk alone in the dark.
On the scale of profit and conscience, there seems to be no end to the pursuit of the former. The deeper the investigation, the more shocked Robert is at DuPont's shoddy behavior. In the past few decades, they have not only understood the hazards of products to the natural environment and human health, but also secretly conducted poison tests on employees. All investigation reports were concealed by DuPont executives. Not recognized by the company. Because these scum already know the principle, in order to avoid liability from the legal source, they do not believe that someone can prove the relationship between disease and PFOA, even if it is proved that PFOA is not among the toxic chemicals under environmental supervision, they will not therefore suffer any penalty. The opponent's strength has reached the point where his hands and eyes can reach the sky, which is why Robert can only fight alone. He can endure losing his future as a lawyer, but he can't accept betrayal of others' trust again and again. He had promised Tennant that DuPont would pay the price. As a result, Tennant waited for only death, but the case was always spinning in the whirlpool and could not escape the deadlock. Robert finds that he can't actually save anyone, and the so-called fairness and justice he pursues is vulnerable in the face of money and power. Robert believes in the binding of laws and rules, but the rules are set by big companies and their interest groups from the beginning, and they can even tear up contracts at will, which is never a fair confrontation. Tennant understands this. Those who keep silent from the beginning all understand it, but Robert doesn't believe it. He was once an elite cultivated by this system, and then he betrayed it. When he stood outside the system, he realized what he once insisted on. How ridiculous the truth is. Ordinary people never hope that the system will speak for them one day, nor do they expect someone like Robert to do justice for them, they resist just to give themselves an explanation, they do not want to die silently, because this is the great What businesses want to see.
Robert decided to dive deeper into the darkness. It had nothing to do with the outcome of the case, or how much compensation DuPont could pay. There were countless black-hearted companies that were still secretly doing the same thing as DuPont. Robert doesn't have the ability to expose them one by one, no one, unless the system can be changed. The first thing that needs to change is people's perceptions, what these companies do is closely related to everyone, and if 99% of people have PFOA in their blood, no one can continue to stay out of it. Robert seems to be sneaking in the dark sea, trying hard to grab the drifting pieces, piecing together the complete information with difficulty, just to reveal the truth to the world, "We must stop chemical companies from continuing to poison our lives", he used his conscience. Bringing light to the world.
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