There's a pretty good article in last week's Business Week (article here) that highlights the ways that companies are reducing CO2 and other emissions in anticipation of the challenges of climate change. The article's principal thesis is that companies ought to start making big changes now because regulation, especially in a post-Bush administration, is inevitable and likely to be severe. In reality, there are innumerable other reasons why companies ought to take a pro-active approach to reducing their emissions, my favorite being the adage that "pollution is a design flaw" that literately represents lost efficiency and lost product.

But - I think for the mainstream audience, scaring them a little bit with the threat of regulation seems to be an effective way to start the process of evolution to truly clean industry. Some people will go down kicking and screaming, but most of them will notice what the more thoughtful competition is doing, and eventually start "getting it".

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.triplepundit.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/1132

From Delicious » del.icio.us / Climate+Change / Pollution / Carbon / Kyoto / Regulation / Business
From Technorati »Climate+Change / Pollution / Carbon / Kyoto / Regulation / Business /