Who Is More Responsible for the Environment: Corporations or Individuals?
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The United Nations report on climate change released in October 2018 shows that humankind has less than two decades and “…plenty of hard work ahead to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and avoid catastrophic consequences to the planet." Faced with the climate crisis, an ongoing debate concerns whether individuals should take a greater responsibility for environmental issues than corporations. This essay will argue that, instead, corporations are more responsible than private individuals for the environmental crisis.
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