Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.61 (870 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1594204012 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A National Magazine Award and Livingston Award finalist and the winner of the Oakes Prize for Environmental Journalism, he was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where he studied economics and systems thinking. He lives in Seattle with his wife and sons. McKenzie Funk is a journalist whose work has appeared in Harper's, National
There's profit in others' misery I ordered this book (subtitle: "The Booming Business of Global Warming") as soon as I saw the premise: an exploration of the businesses that will profit from climate change and the businesses whose profits are driving climate change.Restated from a positive perspective, these businesses profit from adaptation or a lack of mitigation, respectively.Restated from a norma. "You have to read this- you won't like what you learn- but you have to read it" according to C. Braden. Powerful consideration of the flip side to the death of our planet----flipside you say? Why Yes, who will make MONEY out of our demise! They are already starting by using the melted arctic as a shortcut and for drilling under what had been ice, planning to own the water supply, snapping up land for farming food when we are all starving, Private firefighters for your m. Climate change is real - here's what the smart money is doing about it. Excellent. Very balanced and insightful. A must read for those who understand that climate change is real and the doubters too. Focuses not on the climate itself so much, but on those legions of businesses and governments busily staking out positions for the inevitable change. Even businessmen who profess not to believe that humans are the reason for the change are be
This is the rare book that’s both important and highly readable. From eco hedge funds to dam building to desalination plants, he shows how climate change is creating new opportunities and a potential boon for cowboy entrepreneurs. --Neal Thompson. The result is part eco-thriller, part adventure story, part investigative exposé. There’s a wildly speculative and entrepreneurial game being played out there by some forward-thinking risk takers. Impressively researched over six years, Windfall takes us to the front lines: to the deck of a Canadian battleship, where the author blasts a machine gun into the ice cap; to formerly frozen Siberian lands, which investors envision as future mega-farms; to the Sudan, Greenland, Wall Street, and beyond. An Best Book of the
Containing the resulting surge will be big business; some will benefit, but much of the planet will suffer. As droughts raise food prices globally, there is no more precious asset.The deluge—the rising seas, surging rivers, and superstorms that will threaten island nations and coastal cities—has been our most distant concern, but after Hurricane Sandy and failure after failure to cut global carbon emissions, it is not so distant. McKenzie Funk has investigated both sides, and what he has found will shock us all. To understand how the world is preparing to warm, Windfall follows the money.. Funk shows us that the best way to understand the catastrophe of global warming is to see it through the e