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In reply to the discussion: Where can investors who worry about climate change put their pension? [View all]wtmusic
(39,166 posts)6. It's neither, or both.
If investments are switched from fossil fuel companies to renewables/nuclear, emissions go down.
I don't believe growth has to correspond with increased emissions, but we have to get tough and put a price on them. We have to put a price on products imported from countries which don't manage their carbon output.
If I wanted to be as cynical as GliderGuider I would then conclude that humans would just fill in the spaces and drive us into extinction in other ways. That may happen, but at the very least we buy some time.
We're screwn if we don't stop pulling carbon out of the ground. Any way you slice it.
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Where can investors who worry about climate change put their pension? [View all]
wtmusic
Dec 2012
OP
If fuel sources are switched to renewables, atmospheric carbon could head down eventually
NoOneMan
Dec 2012
#7
Is the amount CO2 that heads skyward just to make a solar panel that works 13% of the time justified
OKIsItJustMe
Dec 2012
#13
“I would venture to guess a nuclear plant pays back invested carbon in the first week of operation.”
OKIsItJustMe
Dec 2012
#16
As a member of the credit union, you should have access to their annual report
OnlinePoker
Dec 2012
#19
Pump manufacturers. Concrete makers. Food stocks of all sorts will rise in value as
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2012
#11
But if market places loose stability, it makes investment incredibly risky anyway
NoOneMan
Dec 2012
#12
What if we face unpredictable, non-linear psychological impacts from climate change?
NoOneMan
Dec 2012
#25
Because no clean energy, advanced battery, or mass transportation is ever financed by Wall St.
wtmusic
Dec 2012
#21
But isn't the market consolidation because of Wall St, not in spite of it?
raouldukelives
Dec 2012
#46
Maybe with all your grand profits you'll be able to pay for the imported wheat
NoOneMan
Dec 2012
#33
What the climate may or may not do probably doesn't significantly affect demand yet
NoOneMan
Dec 2012
#41
That's the kind of narrative people weave to justify buying an overpriced box in the sky
NoOneMan
Dec 2012
#43
You mean those indigenous peoples who slaughtered each other at the slightest provocation?
wtmusic
Dec 2012
#54