The $5 trillion industry’s move against clean energy and green technology may prove more damaging than political pushback over “woke” capitalism.

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Oh yeah great because survival as a species is less important than half a point on the Dow next quarter. We’re fucking doomed, I’m gonna give up and I’ll be glad we chose not to have children.

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This is straight up evil, what the fuck? May all these scumbags be spectacularly wrong, eat shit, and die poor.

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They wouldn’t be capitalists if they didn’t try to make a buck from the crisis that they caused.

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So basically they are betting that Trump wins the election and hurts the energy transition, war in the Middle East hits the oil supply, which increases oil prices, EV factory production being too high, due to overinvestment and well solar being a problem in trade wars.

Trump might be solved in a month, the Middle East situation is temporary and a war would accelerate the energy transition as well helping EV manufcaturers thanks to high oil prices or well oil prices fall, which hurts the oil industries profit margin, but is great for the climate. Solar being mostly Chinese is a real problem though.

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They have the money, of course they will bet on what they can control and makes them more money. It’s past time those fucking things get taxed into oblivion, like a 95% tax on every cent earned after 1 million. Managing to shut off tax havens would go a long way, too.

Despite the promises, clean energy and green technology stocks have lagged far behind the broader market. Deep-pocketed institutions are concluding that many climate investments won’t pay off as quickly, or as lucratively, as they’d hoped.

When you’re a hammer, everything is a nail. When you’re a hedge fund, everything is stonks. Fuck them. Blow them all up to hell.

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