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?
Corporate responsibility >
Corporate responsability
After reading a lot of other people's posts about this topic I was horrified. I mean, 100 corporations resulted in 71% of CO2 emissions??? (Thanks to @ARWENB for this info) That's insane, and where I live we can sometimes see this. When I drive down to West Sacramento, I see this line of factories, and coming from that line of factories are clouds of smog polluting the air. In less than a minute I saw billowing puffs escape into the sky, and I wondered, if all that is released into our atmosphere in less than a minute, by a tine line of factories somewhere in California, how long can this go on for? This is barely 0.5% of all the factories in the world, how is our sky not grey yet? Since the Industrial Revolution, our atmosphere has been filled with smog! It's terrifying to see and even more terrifying to think of the consequences.