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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Lobbying
Something that’s embedded in the U.S. system that I find extremely worrying and that is the reason for many issues that we still have today is corporate lobbying. The idea that corporations can spend a huge amount of money to get the government to do what they want is so insanely bizarre and hypocritical to democracy as a whole. There’s a huge variation of companies from oil to banking that pay hundreds of millions of dollars every year to stop or slow down the process of making laws to fight the impending climate crisis that we’re all facing today. This isn’t even mentioning that most of these companies are part of groups like the Business Roundtable where they can all also lobby for each other. I used a lot of information from this article which I highly recommend. https://www.iccr.org/program-areas/clim … e-lobbying