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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Who is responsible?
Everyone contributes to climate change but corporations contribute much more than any individual person. Having corporations switch to more green methods would substantially slow the process of climate change but not necessarily stop it. Every person has an impact. It's important to influence corporations and people to switch to more environmental friendly methods. No one is directly responsible for climate change, but everyone is responsible for contributing to it. It is important to recognize that everyone plays a part.
I completely agree, while corporations play a very big role in climate change, in the end, we all contribute to it, so it's important that we try to lower our own carbon footprint by doing stuff like reducing food waste, eating less meat, taking shorter showers, and turning off lights when were not using them so we can reduce the amount of greenhouse gases were emitting into the atmosphere.
I agree. People advocating and influencing others to transition to a greener lifestyle can have a huge impact. It might also influence lager corporations to be greener.