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Up to a Point: Corporations, the Profit Motive and the Climate Crisis
18 May 2025 By Robert C. Hinkley The world needs a way to stop the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The fossil fuel companies and their largest customers aren’t going to be shamed into it. A solution will need to be in the form of laws that make them stop. The problem is complicated by the fact that it is a global problem. Emissions anywhere contribute to global warming everywhere. There is no one legislative body that has the authority to pass a law that every cor
Robert Hinkley
May 184 min read


Changing the Criteria for Corporate Decision Making
24 April 2026 Berry, NSW Australia The solution to stopping corporate abuse of the public interest lies in changing the instructions directors are given by the corporate law regarding the criteria they must use to make their decisions. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7452204908763668480/. If this sounds like a very big change, it’s because it is. It has the potential to eliminate a wide range of corporate abuses. It’s a natural question to ask why suc
Robert Hinkley
Apr 243 min read


Santa Marta: The First Step towards Responsibility
23 March 2026 By Robert C. Hinkley For three decades the United Nations (UN) has held an annual conference (COP) to try to stop global warming, a goal it has failed to achieve. Greenhouse gases (GHGs) continue to accumulate in the atmosphere. Each year, weather becomes more unpredictable, storms become more intense, droughts become more severe and the global situation becomes more dire. The Earth gets closer to the point where global warming triggers self-perpetuating
Robert Hinkley
Mar 2319 min read
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