Until our governments hold industry accountable for the pollution/CO2 their activities create, we will not get any meaningful movement on this. Steel, aluminum, fertilizer, plastics - these are just a few of the world's dirtiest products. While I think it is good for individual citizens to limit their use of plastics and other fossil fue…
Until our governments hold industry accountable for the pollution/CO2 their activities create, we will not get any meaningful movement on this. Steel, aluminum, fertilizer, plastics - these are just a few of the world's dirtiest products. While I think it is good for individual citizens to limit their use of plastics and other fossil fuel consuming products and activities, until we get industry under control we will not make a big enough impact to slow the warming of our planet.
Unfortunately, in this country, between media companies requiring their hard news orgs to create profit and corporate $ being equal to political speech, it is unclear to me how we can educate the public and demand action from our elected officials on the impact of industry on our climate. Yes, people can stop buying certain products and if you get enough of them to do it to have the company stop making the product in your country, that is a win. However, the economy is global and most companies will simply shift manufacturing and distribution to somewhere else.
The carbon taxes that the EU is trying to get the rest of the world to employ may help in the short term but truthfully, we need to force industries to reinvent the way they make and distribute their products. We need some innovation in materials for construction and fabrication. Unless the governments around the world start to legislate these changes, for profit companies are not going to change their ways.
Until our governments hold industry accountable for the pollution/CO2 their activities create, we will not get any meaningful movement on this. Steel, aluminum, fertilizer, plastics - these are just a few of the world's dirtiest products. While I think it is good for individual citizens to limit their use of plastics and other fossil fuel consuming products and activities, until we get industry under control we will not make a big enough impact to slow the warming of our planet.
Unfortunately, in this country, between media companies requiring their hard news orgs to create profit and corporate $ being equal to political speech, it is unclear to me how we can educate the public and demand action from our elected officials on the impact of industry on our climate. Yes, people can stop buying certain products and if you get enough of them to do it to have the company stop making the product in your country, that is a win. However, the economy is global and most companies will simply shift manufacturing and distribution to somewhere else.
The carbon taxes that the EU is trying to get the rest of the world to employ may help in the short term but truthfully, we need to force industries to reinvent the way they make and distribute their products. We need some innovation in materials for construction and fabrication. Unless the governments around the world start to legislate these changes, for profit companies are not going to change their ways.