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Will big business save the earth?

Business sector has always been the key contributors to the environmental problems we all face nowadays. According to the United Nation Environment Programme, the environmental damage contributed by the world's 3000 biggest companies in total costs approximately US$2.2 trillion in 2008 - an amount larger to the national income of all but seven countries in the world that year, making the business sectors to be the most major contributor of the global environmental problem. The enormous greenhouse gas emitted that worsens the air quality and leads to the climate change, the oil spill that pollutes the water, the toxic waste that damages the natural environment, the overexploitation that breaks the balance of the eco-system... all these malpractices can be found in the big businesses and there is no doubt that these big businesses do have a great impact on the environmental issues. If these big companies and factories keep acting destructively to the environment solely for their economic interest, the worldwide environmental degradation will definitely get worsen and speed up the killing of the Earth; on the other hand, if they are conscious to stop their environmentally detrimental doing but responsibly take