Climate Change: Incrementalism Is No Longer A Viable Option
Corporations can be directed towards a more sustainable planet — but we need to be bold.
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The climate is unravelling before our eyes. Unprecedented heat, flooding, melting and drought are just the tip of the iceberg, and yet our species can’t seem to find the unity needed to prevent a chaotic and possibly catastrophic future.
We have the knowledge and technology to take meaningful action but we don’t. We watch the various numbers rise such as atmospheric CO2 and the rate of warming in the Arctic and we treat it like any other headline, that is to say, we feel concern for a moment and then we go on with our comfortably destructive lives.
“They are… [not doing] enough to prevent the worst that climate change has in store for us. .”
We are told by most politicians that our challenges are serious and that they are taking the necessary steps to protect us, but deep down we know better. They are doing just enough to stay in power but not nearly enough to prevent the worst that climate change has in store for us. Their simplistic and incremental solutions (something I call Fake Leadership) are mind numbingly inadequate. They tell us that we have to find compromise with those that have different views, which is fine, but in the end Mother Nature doesn’t compromise, and if we choose to play chicken with her — we’ll lose.
Corporate Control
We must demand the truth and stop allowing the corporate backed media to set the narrative, that business is part of the solution when in fact, quite the opposite is true; business is at the epicenter of the harm. An objective look at the evidence strongly suggests that the greatest efforts of corporations is to resist change that may impact their short term earnings while simultaneously finding new and inventive ways to “go green” that have little or no impact on the climate plundering system, that is to say, that maintin the status quo.
After all, business isn’t going to increase profits if they pay bigger taxes for their environmental harm, reduce cheap sweatshop labour, increase wages or if they retool and find…
