• Eheran@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    3 days ago

    Every single person is part of the problem. Some more, some less. Corporations do not harm the environment because they are inherently bad. They do it because people (all of them!) love stuff.

    • thanksforreading@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

      They do so because of perverse incentives. They socialize the costs and privatize the gains. This is a fundamental design flaw of Capitalism and in turn Corporations.

        • thanksforreading@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 day ago

          This is a bit of a cop out though. At the moment a very small number of humans do a very large amount of the harm because there is no cost to doing so.