Oof, the article vividly describes the oil and auto industries' utter indifference to externalities and the monomaniacal pursuit of profit by corporate organism

Oof, the article vividly describes the oil and auto industries' utter indifference to externalities and the monomaniacal pursuit of profit by corporate organisms. The only way you get change is through introducing an outside force which drags them along kicking and screaming. (In this case, that's the citizenry affected by those externalities electing governments which impose regulations.)