Selling an idea, even one we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt is always going to be a political issue. There's no getting around the fact that nobody is born with an innate sense of statistics.
So is allowing corporations in the first place, that is also not a result of some innate sense of perfect knowledge of everything surrounding the issue.
Too many companies, too many people in them want the cake and eat it, they want societies to uphold their responsibilities towards them, but not the other way around.