Corporate Stances on Climate Change
Not every corporation is alike; Some take firm stances against the notion of climate change as a whole, whereas others wholeheartedly accept it and try and change for the better.
What's the Big Deal?
Definition of a Corporation
A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law as "born out of statute"; a legal person in a legal context) and recognized as such in law for certain purposes.
Why might companies deny climate change?
Companies that dabble in the oil, gas and coal industry generally have an incentive to keep their businesses running, and as such will go to fairly lengthy ways to try and find loopholes or outright denounce climate change as a phenomena.
Are all companies like this?
Certainly not, as many other companies are perfectly fine with accepting climate change as fact, as it usually does not impede their business. The only corporations to flaunt this behavior aggressively are the fossil fuel tycoons, as it is their direct source of revenue.
The Carbon Footprint - A Corporate Lie
Many are familiar with the Carbon Footprint - a term used to calculate our own daily expenditures of carbon that threatens the planet's health. Except the part where the reason why it's so prevalent is due to a highly successful ad campaign by BP, one of the largest conglomerate fossil fuel companies in the entire world, in 2005, which painted individual carbon footprints as being responsible for climate change while sweeping their own corporate footprint under the rug. Even to this day companies such as BP and ExxonMobil push the false narrative of personal carbon footprints to turn the public's attention away from their industrial carbon footprint and adverse effects to the environment.