Are giant industries destroying the planet?

No, it's average people who use plastic straws who are wrong.

I'm no good at keeping track of the articles I read, but I definitively recall reading an article about how a mere 100 companies are the cause of 71% of all pollution these days.

But sure, dump it on us and tell us we need to cut pets, meat, cars, and who knows what else because it's the people who are the real problem, not the big companies causing deforestation and shit.