Climate and Finance Transformed
Still think global warming is in question? Still think we’re going to return to the old financial stability? Still think those two are separate issues? The screenshot I just pulled from Google (right) is the latest in a long line of hard news (as opposed to debatable opinion) to disbuse you of that.
The earth is rumbling, as the recent global series of earthquakes can show. The latest is the Icelandic volcano that has stranded travelers on one side of the Atlantic or the other, resulting in measurable financial impact and adding to the still-escalating costs on nearly every continent from recent “natural disasters.”
Meanwhile, the fallout from the financial crisis continues to grow, as the lead story at Google implies. To think that the global banks are going to return to normal is sheer folly. An unnamed advisor and thought leader in the impact investing field told us this weekend at a currency retreat (report on that is coming) that the Bilderberg group is already designing the next global currency, and that the world will have to forgive trillions of debt (much of it American) in the process of stabilizing the global economy. Whether you believe this is conspiracy theory or a real conspiracy depends more on your world view, than on what’s actually happening.
Does the world really need another iPhone App? w1sd0m partner Cameron Burgess ponders this on the eve of the first Startup Weekend with a triple-bottom-line frame. Join him tonight to dig in on what that might really mean.