47. The responsibility for preventing environmental damage should be shared by
government, private industry and individuals alike. The primary obligation, however,
belongs to individuals. Moreover, within organizations like the government or a
corporation, responsibility should be increasingly distributed to individuals according to
level of authority.
The primary obligation to preserve the environment belongs to individuals for the
reason that assigning responsibility to a government or corporation is problematic. This
is because abstract entities like these do not fulfill the usual criteria for being
responsible. An entity can shoulder responsibility only if it can be held accountable for
its actions. Furthermore, being held accountable for an action requires that the entity act
willingly and on the basis of conscious intentions. But governments and businesses are
abstractions, having neither will nor consciousness beyond that of the individuals within
them.
Still, we can make some sense of treating corporations and governments as if they
were individuals. They are individuals under the law, and therefore subject to laws,
penalties, and lawsuits. They can even be identified as beneficiaries in wills.
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