Yes, this legal situation brings about lots of unwelcome outcomes, environmental and social impacts often have to be put aside by a 'caring' company as the law

Yes, this legal situation brings about lots of unwelcome outcomes, environmental and social impacts often have to be put aside by a 'caring' company as the law dictates they must do whatever is legal and best serves the interest of the shareholders. The UK has a relatively new entity that can avoid this and still operate with most of the benefits of a regular limited company, a 'Community Interest Company', the 'community purpose' is regulated. https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/office-of-the-regulator-of-community-interest-companies https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/office-of-the-re... A slightly off-topic aside, but tangentially related... I find promise in the 'Economics of Happiness' and GNH work, it's an emerging term and field attempting to measure human happiness in a consistent manner, this would allow any proposed action to have a line item on the costings with a figure that is derived from the amount of 'happiness' that would be created, or destroyed, as a result. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_National_Happiness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_National_Happiness