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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Our current state of capitalism makes it basically impossible for the average person to do anything, anything we do to stop it corporations do tripple to harm the earth. We need to get the big boy corporations to actually help and do something but many are greedy or are gaining to much money to stop. Unless we make a law or change the way our goverment works it might be almost impossible to get them to stop and help but if they did it would definitly slow down global warming faster than ever before.
You are absolutely correct in pointing out the conflict of interests that makes it ill-advised to trust corporations in matters pertaining to the climate. Their only goal is profit, giving them truly no reason to self-regulate. They need to be held accountable for the harm that they have caused and continue to cause to our planet, which we as consumers don't really have the power to do.