Demand Headlines!

Headlines

1. Complementary Demand: " New Lord of the Rings movie released today, as the poster industry sales increase!"

2. Substitute Demand: "Digital book prices drop, Kindle sales rise!"

3. Elastic Demand: "Hershey's chocolate prices at an all time high, while millions are plagued with depression!"

4. Inelastic Demand: "All drinkable water now comes bottled at a price of $25.00 a bottle!"

     In the United States, due a drought occurring all over the U.S, all natural sources of drinkable water have either dried up or are dangerously low. Due to the big corporations of Nestle, Pepsi and Coca Cola refusing to restore lakes and ground water environments from their overuse and removal of millions of gallons of water (for free) per year water has become scarce, and what is left was contaminated by the plants of these big corporations. Additionally, the U.S government has charged these companies with environmental endangerment; and thus, making the companies pay for the restoration of all environments their factories have caused harm. These companies also must provide clean FDA regulated water (multiple teams of regulators supervising this process). Currently, all available water is highly priced, but as soon as these companies have water proccessing plants up and running the price of water will lower with the hope that with environmental restoration of water locations that there may soon be more water available to the world.

Question: Why are corporations allowed to buy land that they use to make a profit, but then aren't expected or won't clean up the land they contaminate or destroy? Why aren't they made to help the communities their factories harm with pollution and the chemicals they use?