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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Persuading Corporations to use Alternative Energy
Most corporations have big responsibilities for the climate crisis. Most big factories burn a lot of fossil fuel a day. Those corporations should use alternative energy, for example, wind turbines and solar panels, etc. However, they might not be willing to switch to that because it might require costly equipment to operate and it will take time for employees to learn how to operate them, and the corporation would not be able to know if this alternative energy is going to work out for them in the long run. One of the first ways to persuade them is by enforcing carbon tax. The next way is that if the corporation uses alternative energy, they will have their tax lowered. Another way to persuade them is that their consumers will tell the corporation that they will not buy their products if they don’t switch to alternative energy. Lastly, if the corporation does switch to using alternative energy, they will be a role model to other companies in the industry and also other industries.
You are absolutely right!
We must care about nature and alternative energy is our help, it's environmentally-friendly way to keep homes(for example) warm and at the same time protect nature.
While I do think that these companies have researched potential alternative methods to power their factories and facilities, they might not want to implement it because of how much it will cost to do this at every other facility. If these companies want to change how they run their facilities, the heads of these big companies have to come to a decision on how they will do this.
I agree ! A lot of the large factories burn a lot of fossil fuels everyday, all day. If they used solar panels or wind turbines more, not only would this help our climate change issue, but there also would not be as much gross stuff in the air.
I agree! I think it is very important for big corporations to be held responsible for the negative impact they have on the earth. If they want to continue to manufacture the way they are now, they should have to be more eco friendly in the way they produce. While they might not want to do this I believe it is crucial for them to if we want to stop the path the earth is on currently.
I agree with this completely. I live in California and when you drive through some of the towns with big industrial plants, all you can see is smoke which of course is also carbon.
I totally agree with you and that big corporations play a huge role in burning fossil fuels. I believe that we can find a modern solution for this like the examples you gave. I also think that the hardest problem would have to be convincing the corporations to change their ways.
I agree with your thought process of companies needing to make a change to the type of energy and their way of retrieving energy. But near the end of your comment when mentioning boycotting the companies as persuasion, this could be extremely difficult to accomplish as some companies make essentials that some people need to live. An example would be if pharmaceutical companies didn’t use clean energy, people with health problems couldn’t boycott those companies due to their health being at risk. Other than this I think your thought process for this problem is great.
I completely agree with you, and I love your Carbon Tax idea. I think that for how much of a problem corporations are when it comes to Co2 combustion corporations are the biggest perpetrators, yet governments trying to make a difference never really hold them accountable. Taxing their abuse on the planet would be a great idea to persuade them.





