Common questions about sustainable action are rooted in responsibility. If the corporations are doing bad and are largely responsible for emissions, shouldn’t it be their responsibility to change? Shouldn’t governments be intervening? And yes, they should be. Yet the actions they are taking aren’t meeting the urgent, ambitious change that science and the climate crisis calls for! Why? Because it serves them to delay action (in the short term). It’s cheaper and more profitable to keep producing in excess and exploiting people and resources. It’s convenient for governments to not have to disrupt their relationships with fossil fuel producers. That’s why our individual and collective actions matter. Governments and corporations need to be held accountable for their role and responsibility. We can create public pressure and use our consumer demand and voices to push for more urgent action. It may be convenient to avoid action now, but we are already seeing the devastating consequences (often to those least responsible) that comes with inaction and those will only worsen and get more expensive to address. I answer these questions in more depth in my latest article for @sustainablykindliving called “9 Best Responses to Hard to Answer Fast Fashion Questions.” Give it a read!