The link to Yuwei Wei’s post: https://blogs.ubc.ca/yuweiwei/

Businesses tend not to care about the environmental impact of their actions. Some businesses go so far as to dump their waste materials into rivers or lakes, thus contaminating and degrading the surrounding environment. The Earth’s resources are limited. If businesses do not consider the external costs of production and take steps to reduce their ecological footprint now, we will have to bear the dire consequences of their actions in the future. Not only will we face a shortage of resources for the production of goods and services, but also changing weather patterns due to increased pollution from industrial exhaust fumes.

I agree with Yuwei that businesses should be required to calculate their environmental footprints annually. It will provide businesses with information about the extent of the damage they are causing to the environment and give them reason to improve in this sector. Consumers will also be provided with a useful indicator of the environmental impacts of their purchases. Businesses should learn to be sustainable, that is, develop the goal of managing and conserving the Earth’s resources in ways that meet the needs of the people today without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. They must come up with innovative ways of doing this, creating products that are environmentally friendly as well as finding ways to get rid of industrial waste without harming the environment.