By and large your can predict corporate behavior by asking a deceptively simple question. 'Will this decision make the corporate entity money?' If there's no profit motive, there's no survival-incentive to warrant a change.Wouldn't that also prompt discourse in the change of manufacturing industries to be more "green".
Was afraid such disenchanting, predictable behavior happening on the side of the corporate world. It's not very creative... no, just not helpful in the long run. From the "Trump and the Carbon Lobby" piece of the mentioned article. Just finding a better option seems to be quite the task, but makes it all the more exciting seeing Elon Musk take 'em to task.For high-carbon industries to continue to be attractive investments, then, they must spin a tale of future growth. They must make potential investors believe that even if there is a Carbon Bubble, it is decades away from popping — that their high profits today will continue for the foreseeable future, so their stock is worth buying.