| Guiding Inquiry: How are corporations contributing to environmental issues in both a positive and negative way? Guiding Thought Question: Can large multinational corporations be trusted to ensure they are not causing irreparable harm to the environment or are government regulations necessary to prevent them from doing so? Explain your answer. Today's Learning Objective: Students will examine the ways in which businesses have a negative impact on the environment but then also how many are looking to improve their environmental footprint. Students will discuss the connections between economic and environmental systems and make scientific models displaying the relationship between corporations and the environment. |  |
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7 Comments
Lauren S
1/24/2022 07:36:30 am
I think there are genuinely good people who own businesses. But no one becomes a billionaire by being kind to the environment and people. Government regulation is needed to hold people accountable.
Helena
1/24/2022 07:40:53 am
Large multinational corporations cannot be trusted to not cause harm to the environment. In order to protect the environment, government regulations are required. This is because the government can actually hold the corporations responsible for their actions when they damage the environment.
Claire Linnell
1/24/2022 07:43:27 am
I agree with Lauren I think their are genuine business owners because a lot of time businesses are developed by hard workers seeking a better future. Although, I feel like ALOT of businesses are not conscious about environmental impacts and it is frustrating because majority of those businesses have enough money to fund more environmentally conscious efforts.
Sam Curtis
1/24/2022 07:46:50 am
Nope, absolutely not. I feel like when companies get to a certain point they go full Onceler and just entirely stop caring, as long as they're making money. Government regulations are necessary for large companies to be regulated. People like that will, in general, put their own greed over the benefit of the planet.
Peter
1/24/2022 07:50:43 am
Large multinational corporations cannot be trusted to self-regulate because self-regulation is against their self-interests. Corporations are interested in making as much money as possible for themselves in the short-term, therefore combatting climate change, the effects of which will primarily effect poor people in the long-term, is of little concern to those corporations. Corporations are also the greatest evil on the planet... so there's that.
Maria
1/25/2022 01:54:44 pm
Large multinational corporations cannot be in charge of monitoring their environmental impact because their best interest will be in their profits and efficiency rather than the environment. Governmental action is needed to hold accountability and set an actual line of where the corporation should be at. Most governmental action will be focused on benefitting both the environment and the corporation so it is best to have legislation monitor the environmental impact
Kiera
1/25/2022 01:56:30 pm
I think there needs to be some governmental regulations. For larger companies their main goal is to make money so self regulating kind of goes against that. Leave a Reply. |
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