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Corporate responsibility (new topic, Sep 2021!)

How much responsibility do corporations have for the climate crisis and for stepping up with solutions?

Here at the ISCFC we are committed to promoting personal, community, national and planetary solutions to reduce our environmental impacts and boldly confront the climate crisis. But as individuals, we can feel powerless when there are huge corporations -such as the fossil fuel industry and factory farms– that are disproportionately responsible for carbon emissions of the past and the present.

What should we do about this? Do you agree that corporations should do more? And if so, what does that mean exactly? How do we persuade or impel polluting industries to change their ways?




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Vicente G

Corporations that spew carbon dioxide is a major reason why climate change exists. Corporations know about the effect that their industries are doing to our planet, but they are greedy for money and continue to go emit Co2 without regard for our environment. Since so many employees and citizens rely on these corporations to make money and everyday materials (such as oil, gasoline, and more), it is hard for corporations to immediately stop making Co2. What we can do is transition to buying from corporations that use more reusable and clean energy sources like wind power, solar panels, and hydropower. This will result in those heavy Co2 emitting companies making less profit since there are fewer customers. We can also make petitions and protests to shut down corporations that expend lots of Co2. We can open more corporations that are good for the environment which can create more jobs for everyone.

Naomimcm(canada)

I agree with you. We often give the citizens the blame and tell them that they are the issue and need to change their; diet, travel less or buy an electric car, and these are not reasonable requests as some people cannot afford to live this way. If we were to have more developed countries take more responsibilities and actions, it would be more realistic. Even if you as an individual were to cut 100% of your carbon emissions for ever you would be eliminating the amount of CO2 that is being produced EVERY 1 second! It is necessary that these big companies that are responsible for a ton of CO2 production to take action and reasonability for this problem.

juliadi

I definitely agree. Instead of trying to solve the problem by telling individuals to limit their carbon emissions we should focus on rules/laws to stop huge corporations from dumping co2 into the environment. Also, even if lot of people actually can make a difference, many of them ultimately don't end up changing their lifestyle even if it isn't too expensive or hard for them to do.

Mia Orta

I 100% agree with you. A lot of these " go green" campaigns and ads tend to push the fact that the average everyday people are the ones responsible for climate change and CO2 emissions. Although the average person does play a part in CO2 emissions its not nearly as big of a part as these large corporations who tend to just ignore what they're doing to our environment. The average person usually can't afford to " go green" but giant companies with billions of dollars to spend have no excuse as to why they cant make some effort to be more environmentally sustainable.

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