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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Corporations Need to Step Up!
Factory farms are constantly cutting down forests to make room for more agriculture, and this releases extensive amounts of carbon dioxide into the air. In addition to this, the demand for meat is increasing quickly. As more and more companies take this higher demand for meat as an opportunity to make some extra cash, more forests will keep getting cut down, releasing more carbon into the air. "With the growth in factory farming," says World Animal Protection, "the most intensively farmed species – chicken and pork – are expected to be produced at levels triple that of beef by 2050."
One of two things needs to happen, either factory farming corporations need to realize the impact their farming expansion has, or governments need to take a stand and create laws preventing farmers from expanding their farms past a certain point. We need to control these carbon levels; we only have one Earth and we have to protect it!
https://www.worldanimalprotection.org/b … te-culprit