Calling All Collective Agents

If climate change is to be mitigated to a level that human societies could still adapt to, organised collectives across the board need to make changes to how they operate. We need regulation, but we also need action from corporations, local governments, cities, business associations, and other collective agents. Fossil fuels are embedded in our everyday practices of consumption and production, as energy sources and petrochemicals, which makes climate change too complex a problem to be resolved exclusively top-down. Collective agents of all stripes can innovate and deliver the meaningful structural-level changes required to address climate change. I suggest that collective agents should make their operations as carbon neutral as possible, as well as play their part in achieving a carbon-neutral world by 2050, cooperating with other agents as required to try to achieve systemic changes. I also discuss global vested and interlocking interests in the survival of the fossil fuel industry, including the highly intertwined nature of many states and fossil fuel corporations, and how fossil fuel majors have worked to replace concerns over corporate responsibility with a narrative of individual responsibility. PR and advertising firms can be seen as enablers of the fossil fuel industry.