Episode 84
The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the depravity at the heart of climate finance: those who set the house on fire (rich nations) are lining up outside to sell fire extinguishers, or loan them with interest, to the occupants who need them (poorer nations) - and in the process often saddling these occupants with debts, or worse, taking whatever furniture, savings or cash they have left.
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The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the depravity at the heart of climate finance: those who set the house on fire (rich nations) are lining up outside to sell fire extinguishers, or loan them with interest, to the occupants who need them (poorer nations) – and in the process often saddling these occupants with debts, or worse, taking whatever furniture, savings or cash they have left.
Assaad W Razzouk
More reading:
“The Macroeconomic Impact of Climate Change: Global vs. Local Temperature”: https://www.nber.org/papers/w32450
“What you need to know about record-breaking heat in the Atlantic”: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/05/what-you-need-to-know-about-record-breaking-heat-in-the-atlantic/
“Microplastics in human testicles”: https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/05/21/microplastics-found-in-human-testicles-could-be-causing-sperm-counts-to-fall
“Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe”: https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story
“A program meant to help developing nations fight climate change is funneling billions of dollars back to rich countries”: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-change-loans/
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (decision): https://www.itlos.org/fileadmin/itlos/documents/cases/31/Advisory_Opinion/C31_Adv_Op_21.05.2024_orig.pdf
“A Big Tool to Fight Climate Change Is Hiding in Plain Sight”: https://newrepublic.com/article/181721/fossil-fuels-civil-forefeiture-pipeline-climate
