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“Study after study has revealed the immense potential. One, by Deloitte for the World Economic Forum, concluded that a transition to could benefit the world economy by $43 trillion over the next five decades.

A commission of some of the world’s top businesspeople and financiers decided that similar measures could create 380 million jobs. And a report by top European institutes calculated that it could lift 3-4 billion people out of poverty.” mastodon.social/@glynmoody/111

MastodonGlyn Moody (@glynmoody@mastodon.social)The Cop28 president told a shocking lie about fossil fuels – and he’s wrong about climate economics too - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/04/cop28-president-lie-fossil-fuels-climate-economics-sultan-al-jaber "Sultan Al Jaber’s claim that green policies damage economic growth is wrong and highly damaging" #cop28

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I worked around a lot of smart people over the years and always found it curious (and frustrating) we were not leveraging more of that brain power for this issue.

I put it down to what I think of as a type of monomania: we are all so wrapped up in our own crap and its viability, we have little left to give to the planet’s viability. And/or, we feel our own stuff just too important to sacrifice for anything else.

Everyone racing along in their own little channel.

@f800gecko Richard Dawkins spoke to something like this some time ago. We evolved in a macro environment and so our brains are designed to help us cope with threats in that environment. Anything mega (or micro-nano) requires Type 2 thinking… and we are evolved to eschew that.

In saying that a lot of smart people have been leveraging their brain power. Unfortunately a number of powerful people have been leveraging their power.