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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we have power over companies
Since companies operate on the principles of supply and demand, we have the power to change things through what we buy and from whom. The less we buy products that cause harm to the environment, whether in use or when made, the less profitable it will be for the companies to produce these products, and so they will make these things less, or even stop making them entirely. This doesn’t mean it is our responsibility for companies actions, it is important for them to govern their own actions, but when they do not, we can do something about it.