which the debt form is no longer referenced to any known terrestrial reserves, at least as far as the current state of science is concerned.
The promise of capital in its present form—which after all is still irresistibly tied to oil—now so far outweighs the earth's geological reserves that we are already living on borrowed time, beyond the limits.
how do we counter a politics that turns the possibility of ecological crisis into a tradable catastrophe risk on the capital markets?
How can we counter a narrative that turns the possibility of ecological crisis into a tradable catastrophe risk on the capital markets? Through the eyes and voice of an ex climate diplomat, we travel from wasted lands to cocktail partys in skycrapers decks. Carbon credits, green finance, all that is a future promise but in true outweighs the earth reserves and our own borrowed time.
How can we counter a narrative that turns the possibility of ecological crisis into a tradable catastrophe risk on capital markets? Through the eyes and voice of an ex-climate diplomat, we travel from wasted lands to cocktail parties on skyscraper decks: carbon credits, green finance, climate bonds... All future promises that outweigh Earth's natural reserves and our own borrowed time.
As we move through the diplomats stream of consciousness, icons of past United Nations Climate Change Conferences and video game sound textures remind us of an endless and exchangeable discourses whose outcome, after more than 30 years, is not even close to avoid a planetary disaster.
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How can we counter a narrative that turns the possibility of ecological crisis into a tradable catastrophe risk on capital markets? Through the eyes and voice of an ex-climate diplomat, we travel from wasted lands to cocktail parties on skyscraper decks: carbon credits, green finance, climate bonds... All future promises that outweigh Earth's natural reserves and our own borrowed time.
As we move through the diplomat's stream of consciousness, icons of past United Nations Climate Change Conferences and video game sound textures remind us of endless, exchangeable discourses. After more than 30 years, we are not even close to averting a planetary disaster.