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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Why Reducing Our Own Footprints Will Do Little
Over half of the world’s carbon emissions are from large companies. Many of these companies do little to minimize their carbon footprint, and if they do, it’s usually a front to save public image. Many companies only care about making as much value as they can without regard for the environment.
This doesn’t mean that reducing your own carbon footprint is a bad idea. You should do as much as you can, but in the end, people should know that environmental damage is mostly the fault of large companies.
We buy produce from these large companies almost daily. If we really wanted bigger companies to minimize their carbon footprint then we should buying from them until they do. They're big companies, they definitely have the money for it.