Before “climate change,” and its long list of destructive effects, entered the mainstream lexicon in the 1980s, within just years after so-called intelligent humans had launched its destruction via their mid-1800s “Industrial Revolution,” most had already visualized the devastating signs that we all — including the repugnant denialists — now clearly recognize.
Early in the Industrial Revolution, alongside the corporate profit-makers, corporate scientists would have done mankind (including themselves) a grand service by getting a speedy leg up on clean-energy research, including how to replace dirty fossil fuels with clean electricity, and air and water pollutants with clean-air and -water innovations. Of course, this did not happen.
One hundred and fifty years later self-interest and stupidity continue to quash selflessness and smarts.
There are many ways to explain why so many so-called corporate “leaders” refuse to help reduce the effects of climate change that are making the earth sicker, and the skies angrier, but the best one, I believe, is this:
None of those global-warming-complacent corporate lemmings — besides refusing to acknowledge the scientific proof that global warming is human-made — takes seriously the fact that their businesses will not long survive the earth’s warming — that is, unless they immediately update their business plans to include “Aggressive Actions to Help Stop Global Warming.”
Maybe then these “leaders” — not including their hopeless enabler, Trump: who just entirely nixed the EPA’s ability to make sensible climate-change policy — will have finally learned that “short-term pain truly does lead to long-term gain.” (I doubt it.)
This year, the earth’s unchecked warming will most likely destroy more business structures than in any year past.
Add that to your annual reports, business “leaders.”