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 and carbon emissions
Big corporations have a responsibility to manage and lower their own carbon emissions. When huge, wealthy groups are playing such a big role in the climate crisis, the individual person is almost completely powerless. The people in charge of these organizations have a responsibility, to themselves, future generations, and the well-being of our planet to lower their own emissions.
In addition, I believe that as a society we need to start taking measures to bring down these corporations ourselves. We have normalized industries like the fossil fuel business, which emits such a large amount of greenhouse gases in comparison to other industries. We have already begun to take measures, such as switching over to electric cars and installing solar panels in our homes, but it is nowhere near enough. As a group of people, we need to move completely away from fossil fuels and other ways of energy that are so damaging to our environment. If we ourselves are not willing to take the steps to save our own planet, how can we expect to get these corporations to do the same? As long as there is demand and money, they will continue to do what they do. We need to make a point.