A corporation will produce staggering amounts of greenhouse gases when manufacturing a product or expanding their business operations, making them dominant contributors to global warming. A corporation is also unlikely to change these practices without reason, as it is a company’s goal to gain money, and so it will do whatever is most profitable, disregarding even the most harrowing of environmental concerns. As an example, consider the continued prevalence and innovation of tobacco industries, despite it being proven that smoking causes cancer. In order to discourage corporations from emitting so many greenhouse gases, governments should directly and brutally tax their income if a company’s carbon emissions exceed a scientifically acceptable level.

I agree, people are unaware and or uncaring of what damage they are causing to our environment due to their need for greed.

I agree, corporations are the largest problem and governments should regulate them.
As of 2015, only 100 companies produce 71% of global emissions. That is a huge number, more than ⅔ of total emissions (https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable … ate-change). Clearly, even a small reduction in each company’s emissions could have a large impact on global emissions as a whole. I like your example of the tobacco industry. It highlights how unnecessary most carbon emissions are and how even though there is so much evidence to change, the government needs to step in for change to occur. One way governments can regulate emissions is like you said, through a carbon tax (https://www.c2es.org/content/carbon-tax-basics/). California and other states have already implemented carbon tax plans, so it is not a stretch to say that the United states could implement something similar(https://carboncredits.com/california-carbon-credits-how-does-it work/#:~:text=The%20current%20price%20for%20carbon,at%20~%2430%20per%20ton).