"When this carbon bubble bursts we'll see huge reverberations across our financial system, because climate change is a such a systemic risk that it touches every area of our lives".
All of this misses or trivialises the real, systemic significance of climate change: that humankind is encountering the finitude of our planet, confronting the need to share and protect our endowment from nature, and realising that much will have to change to make this possible.
I'm talking chain-themselves-to-the-White-House-fence-stop-traffic-at-the-Capitol kind of crazy, because I think if we all make enough noise about this, we might be able to trade a lousy Keystone pipeline for some really good systemic responses to climate change.
Similarly to Giant, Zec and Winslow flip the script in Tree, transforming the viewer from an aggressor in the systemic problem of climate change into the victim.
A long-term, systemic solution to climate change must have broad popular support by spreading the benefits as widely as possible.
Given the current international political climate, systemic, government-driven reform of intellectual property protection seems unlikely in the near term.
In fact, it increasingly appears that, if there is any systemic bias in the climate models, it's that they understate the gravity of the situation.
Changing the way public markets define shareholder value, and developing more systemic policy responses to climate change don't necessarily present win-win options.
"Divestment is radical -- radical in the sense that it gets to the root of a large, systemic cause of the climate crisis.
