The problem is a matter of caring. Thank you for broaching the topic. Caring costs. Where to most strategically endure those costs that can be born is t. I was a businessman dwelling among the low foothills of global economic power in Asia sometime in the previous millennium. I understand the dynamics driving such decision-making to an unusual degree.
The problem is not really our local CEO, it the rules established by law that lay down the incentives he pursues, and hence the sort of character that succeeds in that game. In short, if your rules are Shark Tank rules, then you get sharks in the game. Sharks don't care, and enjoy their contempt of those hapless mammals who do. We make such easy prey. The natural world in which we live has been poisoned by such rules. A million years after Fukushima archeologists will be able to date the day the true cost of the technology originally billed as "too cheap to meter" proved to be too dear to pay, that is to say if intelligent life on Earth persists nonetheless.
The nub seems to be that the rules as written dictate that CEOs are not beholden to the local communities in which they operate, but solely to the community of shareholders whose financial stake they have a fiduciary obligation to maximize, at the expense of any and all other entities, including the government that protects their mercantile activities, not to mention you and I, living breathing natural persons.
Corporations are "artificial persons" under the law, which, since the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court about fifteen years ago, have enjoyed all the constitutional protections of natural persons like you and I. This is to say, Frankenstein's monster now owns the mortgage to Dr. Frankenstein's mansion, but has kept the good Dr. on as hired help.
In US history corporations were restricted by charter to specified time to exist and field of activity, and monitored by the local communities that chartered their existence. That was all changed when John D. Rockefeller bought congress in order to gain unlimited lifetime and scope of activity for that original corporate Frankenstein's monster, The Standard Oil Trust early in the Twentieth Century. That scope has steadily expanded. These soulless legal fictions that "have no soul to save and no body to jail" now have all the rights and privileges before the law of the natural persons they were created to serve, but they never sleep, they never die, they never stop eating, they never stop excreting, and their appetites never stop growing. Corporations are an example of the "Baobab Trees" that plagued a planet in St. Exupery's excellent tale "The Little Prince".
The CEO must systematically "externalize costs" in order to privatize profits. That is a euphemism for "take from the community and render unto your masters". This translates into the imperative: "Slave, go forth and steal for us". I repeat, this is not merely legally permitted, it is mandatory behavior.
Please, if you want an excellent crash course on the issue, please see the documentary "The Corporation", which makes a compelling case that corporations are legally constituted sociopaths. Last I saw it was available on Netflix.
The problem here is but a local expression of a global challenge. Shall we attempt a community consensus on how best to respond?