Scientific discoveries uncover truths that improve our understanding of the world — and, at times, also
threaten corporate profits.
It is clear from the above that the climate change disinformation campaign is only one element in an organized effort of corporations and free market fundamentalists foundations to limit the power of citizen movements to protect human health and the environment when these movements
threaten corporate profits or unregulated markets.
Not exact matches
A key element of bargaining for the common good is challenging the
corporate and financial actors who are driving an austerity agenda and
profiting off privatization and other policies that
threaten our communities.
Combined with earnings growth, we see these returns of capital to shareholders offsetting some valuation challenges: Investors are typically unwilling to bid up equity valuation multiples when rising interest rates and inflation
threaten to erode
corporate profit margins.
You can point the finger at all sorts of participants in this battle, but I believe (and we have been examining and discussing at length on this site for more than 8 years now) the principal drivers of the polarization are coming more from: (1) the
corporate energy interests who are protecting their
profits against regulation and other policies that would move the system away from fossil fuels, and using their clout in the political process to tie things up; (2) right - wing anti-government and anti-regulatory ideologues whose political views appear
threatened by scientific conclusions that point toward a need for stronger policy action; (3) people whose religious or cultural identities appear
threatened by modern science; and so forth.
The
corporate structures introduced objectives (maximising
profits) and decision making processes that were alien and sometimes
threatened the subsistence lifestyle.