Changing the Way Corporations Think

1 February 2026

To Avert Climate Change

The vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions come from a relatively few number of corporations that won’t stop emitting because it would cost them large amounts of money.  Their directors know that wouldn’t be in their company’s best interests.  Their decision to continue, despite the severe harm they know their companies are inflicting, can be directly tied to the mistake governments made many generations ago regarding how corporate directors should make their decisions. 

Corporations wouldn’t exist if our ancestors hadn’t passed laws providing for it and telling them how to think.  That way of thinking was sooner or later going to prove unsustainable. The pursuit of unrestrained greed, besides being wrong, never ends well.  It now threatens the planet upon which we rely for life.   The unbounded pursuit of corporate self-interest is no longer compatible with humanity’s interests.

If global warming is to be stopped and the climate crisis averted, the way companies think must be changed to protect the environment and other elements of the public interest from severe harm.  The death spiral of not being able to pass laws to stop increasing levels of corporate inflicted harm must be interrupted.  The only way to do that is to change the way the law tells corporate directors how to make their decisions. 

The mistake made long ago to free corporate directors from responsibility to protect the public interest, will be mankind’s downfall if it isn’t reversed soon.  The First International Conference on the Just Transition away from Fossil Fuels, being held in Santa Marta, Colombia in the last week in April, is the place to start.

#SantaMartaConference #climatechange #globalwarming