Who stands to gain the most financially with the embrace of climate change?

Let’s be realistic here. Climate Change/Global Warming has a huge economic factor. Someone stands to rake in the money. So who are those people and are their motivations suspect because of their financial gains?

9 Responses to “Who stands to gain the most financially with the embrace of climate change?”

  • Scott W:

    tech companies who want to cash in….first in line…General Electric, those SOB’s

  • Johnny Relentless:

    They are trying to make environmental protection more profitable because that’s the only way to really gain support for it. But right now very few people will profit from it. The main reason there is so much opposition to it is that many people might lose profits to it, such as the oil companies. They want to maintain the status quo even if it means the following generations will pay with their health.

  • courney:

    i believe that of the companies that would gain money by trying to get the public to believe that climate change as a result of using fossil fuels is false. That being the oil and gas companies such as Exxon and others.

  • Well Well Well:

    The first suspects are the alternative energy firms and those who build the infrastructure and components of such (eg. wind turbines and solar cells/panels).

    But looking closely, the real big money goes to the people who are now defining a new form of currency : Emissions trading (aka as cap and trade). If they get their way it will be a new world order in the making.

  • Wally:

    Government, all the taxes and restrictions put on common forms of energy would increase the government income. Therefor, taking money away from businesses.

  • Noah H:

    In the end all of us stand to benefit. By phasing out fossil fuels health expenses due to environmental reasons will decrease. Maybe doctors won’t be so busy and will be able to spend more than five minutes with a patient…that’s a plus. Water, air and soil will be less polluted…why is that a bad thing? New industries will begin to impact the market, opening up new employment opportunities. True, some people will get on the train before others and make some money, and maybe the coal and oil industry will see a gradual decline, but so what? Isn’t that the system? If we can slow down this problem of climate change by applying technology, science and reason it stands to reason that the world’s leadership has an obligation to set into motion policies that do that. That’s their job….not to stand in the way of progress, or to protect anyones particular cash cow. The invention of farm machinery doomed slavery industry, and I’m sure that in 1900 the horse and buggy industry would have shut down the horseless carriage industry with the same arguments. "Change will ruin us!" The canal industry wasn’t exactly pleased when the iron horse industry began laying tracks either. The railroads in turn got bumped by the invention of the airplane. The adding machine and the typewriter went the way of the buffalo when some smart cookie invented the calculator and the computer. Hoop skirts got beat out by hot pants and movies killed vaudeville. Times change…that’s a given. Burning anything isn’t a good thing no matter how you slice it and fouling our paper thin atmosphere with the products of burning coal and oil has a significant downside effect on health and climate that if not addressed will certainly cost more than dealing with the problem with emerging 21st century technology. Coal and oil are 19th and early 20th century technologies…it’s time to move on. I recommend it!

  • People First!:

    HERE YOU GO –

    These people: http://www.ieta.org/ieta/www/pages/index.php?IdSiteTree=1249

    To the tune of $3 TRILLION per year within a decade

  • Jeff M:

    Probably the opposite of the companies that would gain money by trying to get the public to believe that climate change as a result of using fossil fuels is false. That being the oil and gas companies such as Exxon.

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