Commentary: CEOs Need to Lead on Climate Change Policy. (2019, February). Retrieved from http://fortune.com/2019/02/21/climate-change-policy-corporate-sustainability/

This article discusses the importance of businesses implementing their own measures to comply with environmental laws and regulation. It is a simple idea overall, basically stating that if businesses do not change their ways to fit within new regulation, there will be no forward progress in fighting climate change.

I am in strong agreement with the opinion written into this article. Another article I did earlier talked about how despite environmental law and regulation, most nations are not able to improve their impact on the natural ecosystem at the rate they should be able to. It is pointless and even counterproductive to enact policy without following it. One, there is clearly no progress if nothing changes and then things can actually be made worse due to consequences of a masking effect outlined by Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker. The masking effect constitutes that there is an illusion of something good, progress being made, when there is actually none. This causes people to relax even more because they are captured by the illusion that things are better than they actually are.