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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Large corporations tend to gloss over how large of a carbon footprint
Large corporations tend to gloss over how large of a carbon footprint their corporations leave behind. Of course it's important to take into consideration how much they are producing for the entire world, but if 100 or so companies are responsible for 71% of all global emissions ( according to the article Corporate Honesty and Climate Change: Time to Own Up and Act by Joshua Axelrod) Then we have a serious problem. Companies with such a large reach globally need to own up to their actions and find more sustainable ways to make their products, with the amount of money these large corporations make, it shouldn't be a impossible task. This may not happen for a long time however since corporations tend to make excuses as to why they can't go green, in the meantime it's crucial that people buy from companies who are already using sustainable energy.
This is really interesting, There's an interesting case to look at on the topic of corporate responsibilities in climate change. I am referencing the shell corp case basically stating that they had to not only pay/take responsibility for their own emissions that are made internally in the company but also all the emissions that are caused by their product( gas). this seems like a big step forward in the movement to keep these large corporations responsible for their carbon footprint and not leaving them any loopholes to jump through