Green to Gold
What’s great about global warming?
If you don’t know the answer to that question, you’re probably not an oil executive or fat-cat industrialist. Climate change is widely viewed as one of the biggest threats facing humanity, and its impact is already causing insecurity and panic worldwide. But while developed nations squabble over their finicky plans on how best to slash emissions by 2030, forward-thinking companies and tech-savvy entrepreneurs are figuring out how to capitalise on the chaos.
Instead of being consumed by doom and gloom, these entrepreneurs see impending Armageddon as a business opportunity. Commenting to a conference audience on the riches—in particular oil and gas—beneath the planet’s icy wildernesses, a Shell executive once declared, “I will be one of those persons most cheering for an endless summer in Alaska.” You can’t help but admire capitalists and their
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