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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Illegal Bilge Dumping From Container Ships
A cargo ship produces tons of used oil, detergents, and chemicals every day. This mix is supposed to be treated and then disposed of on land, but this is often not the case. Most crews don't comply with these laws, they pump the toxic sludge into the sewage tank and into the sea. This is done to lose weight and lower costs for businesses that operate on tight schedules. We can use satellites to find spills, Skytruth operates a satellite and found more than 1500 potentially illegal dumps around the world over 18 months. Spills quickly dissipate making them harder to trace and killing billions of microorganisms like plankton and fish larva, destroying ecosystems. Policing 100s of thousands of container ships is an impossible task. We don't even have an estimate of how many incidents there are as they happen out at sea. The figure for the estimate of oil spilt could be as height as 55,000,000 Gallons(208,197,648 Liters). How laws are enforced differ from country to country and range in punishments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TiMy27yhFw
https://skytruth.org/cerulean/
https://www.copernicus.eu/en/copernicus … g-overview