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How the world's biggest bank is bracing for climate catastrophe (www.youtube.com)
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JP Morgan chase recently published a comprehensive climate report which spelled out to its investors how they should be adapting to the coming storm and pointed out all the lucrative investment opportunities a warming planet presents (like melting sea ice & thawing permafrost opening up new trade routes and mining sites, and increasing temperatures providing an uplift to the air-conditioning market. Meanwhile the UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, who are financial risk managers, published their own analysis with a very different outlook. This video compares and contrasts the two reports.

JP Morgan document / dark comedy: https://www.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/jpm/cib/documents/Building_intuition_for_strategic_decision_making.pdf

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[โ€“] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)

How do banks prepare for the possible near end of our world as we know it?

By making short term business opportunities, of course!

I mean, we can all see how sick this world is and that we are the fucking infection

[โ€“] KindnessisPunk@piefed.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Never underestimate the capitalist ability to do mental gymnastics to perpetuate the system.

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