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As corporations and politicians promote future ‘win-win’ solutions to climate change, communities in vulnerable regions of the world are already experiencing the effects of a devastating ecological unravelling. Increasingly intense storms, floods, hurricanes, fires and droughts are leaving myriad physical impacts – many of them in the form of loss of life and property.
A key challenge to fossil fuel hegemony is the recognition that responding to the existential threat of human-induced climate disruption requires a dramatic reduction in the amount of carbon emissions produced by the global economy. Climate science presents a stark choice in this regard.
As corporations and politicians promote future ‘win-win’ solutions to climate change, communities in vulnerable regions of the world are already experiencing the effects of a devastating ecological unravelling. Increasingly intense storms, floods, hurricanes, fires and droughts are leaving myriad physical impacts – many of them in the form of loss of life and property.
Insurance is a capitalist system, by and large, with for-profit companies … So they’re always going to try to compete with each other and offer enhanced value to their higher-end customers who will pay the higher prices
As corporations and politicians promote future ‘win-win’ solutions to climate change, communities in vulnerable regions of the world are already experiencing the effects of a devastating ecological unravelling. Increasingly intense storms, floods, hurricanes, fires and droughts are leaving myriad physical impacts – many of them in the form of loss of life and property.
Human-induced climate disruption is the most pressing issue facing our species, yet the ineffectiveness of the political response becomes ever more apparent in the face of the escalating crisis. Even as scientific projections re-emphasise the magnitude of the problem, the world’s addiction to economic growth and the fossil energy that fuels it continues to expand – and, as a result, so do carbon emissions.
The increasing FDI in Africa from China and India in recent years has drawn the attention of scholars, policy makers, and the media. Africa is an arena where the two emerging giants compete on different bases. Indian firms have the advantage of institutional proximity and large diaspora communities in Africa, while Chinese firms rely on government-to-government relationship-building. The rivalry between India's soft power and Chinese hard power in Africa will continue for the foreseeable future.
This article reviews and criticizes Joseph Heath’s market failures approach (MFA) to business ethics. Our criticism is organized into three sections. First, we argue that, even under the ideal assumptions of perfect competition, when markets generate Pareto-efficient distributions, Heath’s approach does not rule out significant harms. Second, we show that, under nonideal conditions, the MFA is either too demanding, if efficiency is to be attained, or not sufficiently demanding, if the goal of Pareto efficiency is abandoned. Finally, we argue that Heath’s appeal to regulations and specific moral requirements as a remedy for market failures is unlikely to safeguard efficiency and exposes a number of general worries regarding the moral force of the MFA. We end this article with a constructive suggestion on how to adjust the MFA to avoid these problems while preserving its contractualist and Paretian spirit.
Safety voice helps organizations to identify safety issues timely and is critical to the long-term growth of the organization. Safety voice has become a hot research topic in organizational safety, and different scales have been developed. However, the unique cultural context in China has led to the need to redevelop safety voice measurement tools. In this paper, we developed an initial scale of safety voice for employees in Chinese organizational contexts fusing in-depth interviews and mature scales. The initial scale based on two samples (n1 = 205, n2 = 420) was revised and validated using item analysis, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and reliability analysis to finalize the final scale. We finally found that the safety voice scale in Chinese organizational contexts contains two dimensions: promotive safety voice and prohibitive safety voice. The scale developed in this paper is a reliable tool to measure safety voice behavior of Chinese employees.
Climate change is the most important issue now facing humanity. As global temperatures increase, floods, fires and storms are becoming both more intense and frequent. People are suffering. And yet, emissions continue to rise. This book unpacks the activities of the key actors which have organised past and present climate responses – specifically, corporations, governments, and civil society organisations. Analysing three elements of climate change – mitigation, adaptation and suffering – the authors show how exponential growth of the capitalist system has allowed the fossil fuel industry to maintain its dominance. However, this hegemonic position is now coming under threat as new and innovative social movements have emerged, including the fossil fuel divestment movement, Fridays for Future, Extinction Rebellion and others. In exposing the inadequacies of current climate policies and pointing to the possibilities of new social and economic systems, this book highlights how the worst impacts of climate change can be avoided.