Climate change/ climate action

McKinsey estimates that getting to net zero is a more than $12 trillion (trillion!) opportunity.

We are burning ancient plants and animals (aka fossil fuels, not renewable) to jet around and wear fast fashion, and build highways and skyscrapers, and heat outdoor swimming pools in autumn, and shiver inside in summer, and convert lush ecosystems into sprawling and unwalkable suburbs with silly lawns, and commute alone in our cars to jobs that do

The deepest problem that local-food efforts face, however, is that we’ve gotten used to paying so little for food. It may be expensive in terms of how much oil it requires, and how much greenhouse gas it pours into the atmosphere, and how much tax subsidy it receives, and how much damage it does to local communities, and how many migrant workers it

Fighting Exxon is key, and we’ve done it with some success, but we’re well aware that Exxon is going to fight to the last breath. Their business model depends entirely on digging stuff up and setting it on fire. And so they’ll fight for the right to combust. But there’s no reason for Chase or Citi to fight to the end. They make some money off this

American industry uses less energy per dollar’s worth of stuff it produces, but it produces so much more stuff each year that our carbon emission totals keep rising.

When that BankFWD analysis factored in these new numbers, Google’s carbon emissions went up 111% overnight. Microsoft’s financed emissions were even higher than Google’s. And Netflix has more carbon coming from its cash than from all the servers around the world dishing out TV every night.