What obligation do business have to the environment?

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Obligations of businesses to the environment

According to an article published on the CQ researcher , human activities has led to the increase in the levels of carbon dioxide in the air (Clemitt , M . CQ Researcher . Industrial business organizations are man made hence involve human beings in their activities . Most industries use fuels which have high levels of carbon hence leading to increase in the levels of carbon dioxide in the air . This leads to increase in the rate of global climate change thus proving that

businesses are responsible for the problem . Muller was quoted in the CQ researcher saying that since the 1960s only human activities have led to global climate change (Muller , R . Technology Review on-line . As stated earlier this is due to their frequent use of fuels rich in carbon . They use the carbon rich businesses in manufacturing of goods into finished products which they sell to consumers . Johansen , Bruce (35 ) suggested that human beings through their activities cause greenhouse effect which leads to disturbance in the concentration of gases found in the atmosphere . There is a constant concentration of gases in the atmosphere hence increase or decrease in either of them affects the atmosphere . When the levels of carbon dioxide found in the atmosphere increase in concentration then there will be global climate change . A slight change in the concentration of the gases will lead to a large increase in the levels of not only carbon dioxide but also methane . This can...