By Auden Schendler, vice president of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company.

A little over a year ago, Syracuse University flew me all the way from Colorado to give a talk on climate change, and not a single graduate student showed up. I asked my host professor why. He told me that the students think capitalism is bankrupt. They don’t want to hear from a corporation on climate. Business has nothing credible to offer them, he said. The students felt that absent a clear and nontoken effort to solve the two crushing problems of our . . .