Why mispricing climate risk is economic suicide
The next economic superpower won’t be the country with the largest GDP or the most skyscrapersFor too long, the global response to climate change has been reactive, sluggish, and above all, mispriced. Flood defences, solar infrastructure, water recycling systems—these lifesaving essentials are often framed as burdensome costs on public balance sheets, rather than what they […]
Episode 6 – WE ARE SOCIAL – closing by Zoltan Rendes
Today, seven out of ten of the most shared and liked content on social media about climate change is misinformation or conspiracy theory. Things like “the Canadian wildfires disaster is caused by a globalist terror attack to trigger climate emergency” (oh, okay) or “the ruling class wants you to eat bugs to cut greenhouse gas […]
Episode 6 – We Are Social – Opening by Balazs Juszt
And today’s reason we are an endangered species is: social media. Or rather, the social nature of human beings. Does it not boggle your mind that elephants, lions, wolves, but even ants and bees are social animals, just like us, but after millions of years of evolution, they have not collectively turned on each other […]
Episode 5: WE ARE TRAITORS – Closing by Zoltan Rendes
In the 2004 disaster blockbuster Jack Hall played by Dennis Quaid says to the United Nations: “The Northern Hemisphere owes its temperate climate to the North Atlantic Current. Heat from the Sun arrives at the equator and is carried north by the ocean. But global warming is melting the polar ice caps and disrupting this […]
Episode 5 We Are Traitors – Opening by Balazs Juszt
And today’s reason we are an endangered species is: traitors. A traitor is someone who betrays another’s trust or is false to an obligation or duty. Well, in that case, we are all traitors. We’ve placed our trust in each other – each other being people from all walks of life, who work at the bakery or big Pharma […]
WE ARE UNROMANTIC by Zoltan Rendes
What are the most romantic moments of your life? The sweet song of the larks on a spring afternoon? Or the wild camels moving on the horizon under the million stars in the desert? Or maybe the smooth lights of the fireflies surrounding you on a midnight summer walk? If none of these have happened […]
Climate Change – Weather – Fortnite Edition
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WE ARE COCOA by Zoltan Rendes
I recently returned from a visit to Côte d’Ivoire, also known as Ivory Coast. I was there before, more than 20 years ago during an armed conflict which was the result of the ongoing “Cocoa War” (this refers to the economic and political instability fueled by the country’s reliance on cocoa production, particularly concerning land […]
Episode 4 – WE ARE PESSENGERS – Closing by Balazs Juszt
For reasons that elude me, we have all booked a yearly travel around the Sun in the Milky Way on a planet rotating at just the right speed, with just the right gravity and the perfect atmosphere for all elements that our species requires to survive the journey. Globally, you’re looking to make this trip on an average of […]
Episode 4 – WE ARE PESSENGERS – Opening by Zoltán Rendes
And today’s reason we are an endangered species is passengers. Almost 19 million of whom came to here, to Dubai last year. The first time I landed in Dubai around 25 years ago, it was a desert with some high-rise buildings and a couple of resorts at the seaside. Then Burj Khalifa and hundreds of […]
