Holy shit, EA, this is *dark*

However, something really interesting happens when we organize. We no longer operate based on our biological imperatives, but instead operate on socially defined imperatives.

A corporation is nothing but an organisation of people.

The system of capitalism dictates simplistic competitive behaviors that are ecologically unsustainable.

That might be the most obvious conclusion, but corporations and capitalism are largely orthogonal to if not actually discouraging of the tragedy of the commons. When the cities of previous centuries overflowed with refuse just dumped into the street by their citizens, how was it capitalism that kept them in filth? When the people of Easter Island all but destroyed the ecology of their home, which corporation was to blame?

Corporations are simply economies of scale for efficiently achieving the goals of the people who have a stake in them. Local governments are corporations that among other things organise for garbage to be efficiently collected for a relatively small capital cost and disincentivise dumping it on the street. The problem with corporations is how they deal with anything outside their narrow view of goals and responsibilities. Global warming is the prime example of such an externality, but the solution isn't to tear down corporations. That might achieve your goals if only through sending humanity back to the agrarian level of development you can't escape without combining investment to attain technological progress. What you need is a more representative corporation, i.e., a government, to close down those externalities. In the case of greenhouse gas emissions, governments just need to attach an immediate cost to them that reflects the future costs that will be borne by others.

Yes, governments have failed to address this problem sufficiently so far and corruption is a part of the problem, but ultimately it's a problem of the public itself (at least in democratic countries). The people who vote in the leaders who won't solve the problem are either stupid enough to place their vote according to:

Blaming it on "the system" is an age-old cop-out that assuages one's own guilt; "it's the oil companies, not me, being all Malthusian and raping the environment when I drive my SUV". Such comforting lines might get the gold and the upvotes, but at the end of the day, it's not the people who struggle within a system that the corporations set up; it's the corporations who follow the rules of the system that the people put in place and maintain. What we need to do is be vocal and make sure as many people as possible fully understand the consequences of their votes and lifestyle.

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