Responsible Business Action - Must Be Taken to Avert Environmental Crisis

In this article, Ryan Pathak says plastic pollution is engulfing our planet and concrete steps such as raising awareness must be taken and business companies should be held accountable. Company employees, including those in executive positions, must be educated on environmental issues, counting the consequences of their company’s decisions, including its carbon footprint. Businesses must have appropriate external entities that impose putting stricter restrictions on their actions, increasing their duty to be accountable.

- Ryan Pathak

Climate change is one of the most formidable challenges mankind is facing in this era and that is because it exploits our two most common and basic flaws that fuel each other—the lack of patience and the lack of foresight. Patience is a virtue, many of our old philosophers have spoken about while foresight is treated as the premier skill of man but truth be told, in today’s time, both of these are limited due to the presence of a constant rat race dictating our life. Our lives are controlled by this rat race, a constant rush to keep growing without thinking what gets trampled, destroyed or left behind. In our eyes, above these deceitful illusory heights, we believe there to be something worth the heavy cost of destruction and chaos we leave behind. While we could, of course, convince ourselves by saying that we could prevent us losing our very sense of reality, truth is that we are, in fact, human. Behind the glass towers and nameless companies, people are sitting. People, who are trying to grow in a world where the definition of personal growth has been twisted, people who forget the background reality in the hopes of a better future.