The world's corporations produce so much climate change pollution, it could eat up about 44% of their profits if they had to pay damages for it, according to a study by economists of nearly 15,000 public companies.
It’s one of the things that infuriates me when I hear refusals to address climate change: the “business as usual” way of doing things entails externalising countless costs, meaning comparing costs is an apples-and-oranges endeavour.
It’s one of the things that infuriates me when I hear refusals to address climate change: the “business as usual” way of doing things entails externalising countless costs, meaning comparing costs is an apples-and-oranges endeavour.
@theendismeh @silence7 @climate
The “business as usual” approach reminds me of the saying “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”