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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Corporate responsibility
I noticed that especially recently, in the wave of an attempt to reduce the environmental impact humanity has upon Earth and slow down global warming, many environmental activists attempt to spread the message of personal responsibility and making small changes upon lifestyle, pushing the agenda that this will cause a larger wave of activism. "If everybody changes one thing in their personal lifestyle, it can cause a chain event ! Everyone can do SOMETHING to help earth!" However, it comes down to the fact that companies and large corporations are mainly responsible for many of the climate crisis's we are undergoing right now. They exploit lower class people who are unable to purchase and utilize more environmentally healthy things, and force them to buy more cheap, but also environmentally harming products. There is no way for this group of individuals to change their lives in a way that is sustainable for upper class folks with large amounts of money, but detrimental to lower class folks whose lives are almost entirely consumed with cheap but also environmentally harming produce.