Windfall
The Booming Business of Global Warming
by McKenzie Funk, Sean Runnette · first published 2014
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"An investigation into how entrepreneurial people and institutions around the globe are cashing in on the new world being created by global warming--and who will pay the price for it"--
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on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2022 and recommend for 2023” ↗…history of how the philosophy of economic growth has come to be a dominant ideology in our civilization. This book roughly addresses the question of "why aren't we doing anything!?". McKenzie Funk -- Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming [4]. Funk writes about the many exciting business opportunities created by the changing climate, including: the melting arctic provides access to new oil and mineral…
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