The companies are not good or evil, they’re neutral. They only care about making money.
If burning more oil generates more profit, they’ll do that. If burning less oil generates more profit, they’ll do that. And, they’ll stop operations as soon as people stop buying their products/services.
On the other hand, they’re not honest. They use marketing to create a demand for their products and services. They lobby politicians to be exempt from regulations. They lie about how environmentally friendly they are.
You can’t 100% blame these companies for climate change because they’re just selling things that people want to buy. But, you also can’t 100% blame people for buying those things because they’re not doing it with full informed consent about what’s happening with the money they hand over.
In the end, we need to completely change the way western civilization lives if we want to slow climate change down, and part of that process will involve punishing companies that don’t prioritize doing things in an environmentally friendly way.
The companies are not good or evil, they’re neutral. They only care about making money.
If burning more oil generates more profit, they’ll do that. If burning less oil generates more profit, they’ll do that. And, they’ll stop operations as soon as people stop buying their products/services.
On the other hand, they’re not honest. They use marketing to create a demand for their products and services. They lobby politicians to be exempt from regulations. They lie about how environmentally friendly they are.
You can’t 100% blame these companies for climate change because they’re just selling things that people want to buy. But, you also can’t 100% blame people for buying those things because they’re not doing it with full informed consent about what’s happening with the money they hand over.
In the end, we need to completely change the way western civilization lives if we want to slow climate change down, and part of that process will involve punishing companies that don’t prioritize doing things in an environmentally friendly way.