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The Climate Short: Hedge Funds Pile Up Huge Bets Against Green Future
(www.bloomberg.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
They have the money, of course they will bet on what they can control and makes them more money. It's past time those fucking things get taxed into oblivion, like a 95% tax on every cent earned after 1 million. Managing to shut off tax havens would go a long way, too.
When you're a hammer, everything is a nail. When you're a hedge fund, everything is stonks. Fuck them. Blow them all up to hell.