3. Climate change: focusing on individuals is very convenient for corporations

Climate change: focusing on individuals is very convenient for corporations

I think also we should look specifically at how our individual choices are influenced and benefit corporations.

It's not like Exxon is drilling for oil because people enjoy it. They're doing it because they know we'll buy it because we're just weighing the immediate costs vs the immediate benefit. And of course making short term choices is the norm for everyone, that's why the idea of the "tragedy of the commons" has been around forever.

The question is, what kinds of limits or regulations should we be putting in place to help ourselves make better long term choices? And it seems likely that those limits and regulations are mostly going to have to fall on the corporations that are providing the choices in the first place.

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