But they also do some very good things on a large scale that their power makes them uniquely capable of doing. ImageYou may already have closed your ears because of the bad things you know that even the best big companies also do. Another reason I feel hopeful has to do with the success of many recent supranational agreements — bilateral agreements between nations, regional agreements and world agreements. Those successes give me hope that we may similarly resolve other difficult international problems, including climate change. My conservative friend asked my environmentalist friend what she did, and she answered, “I run U.C.L.A.’s sustainability program.” My conservative friend replied, “What’s that?,” the skepticism evident in his voice.

Source: International New York Times April 15, 2019 09:00 UTC