A lot of big polluters are publicly traded companies. Owning shares of US public companies means you can go to shareholder meetings, vote, and other rights.
What do all think of a non profit that runs and is funded with an endowment composed of big polluters like oil companies and using the dividends to fund climate initiatives? In the mean time, using the seat at the table to influence other shareholders to reduce emissions, which is in their long term interest anyways.
If the endowment dries up, mission accomplished. If it grows, more money to act with.
What do all think?
Sure, if enough people do nice capitalism, it will cancel out the bad capitalism (that we have no intention of getting rid of). 🙃
No, it wouldn’t work for a number of reasons, but the main one is that rich and powerful people want to stay rich and powerful, if you get in their way they won’t just sit back and let you do it, they’ll pump money into propaganda, reactionaries think tanks and anything necessary to keep the status quo.
Capitalism itself is the reason we are going through climate change, “perfecting” it more won’t take us out of it. This is the usual moderate response to any kind of issue: they struggle between wanting progress and being afraid of change so they come up with half-assed solutions that don’t rock the boat too much. Negative peace vs positive peace.