| Re: Get rich quick-global warming. Stuart I think you are looking at this from the wrong angle.
Google it! Just type in ''make money from global warming'' and half a million + pages will pop up. OK I don't expect you to go through them all but like me you'll find quotes such as; Make money from global warming, etc. and many more offers. And these aren't just small Internet entrepreneurs looking for a quick buck either.
Environmental organizations have reaped billions through their campaigns of fighting "Global Warming." The world's media has printed thousands of articles of "Global Warming" and printed many books. Some have even become best sellers and more are on the way. The media readily prints all articles favouring Global Warming without any verification of the facts but it has yet not resulted in any visible changes
Al Gore continues to tell his critics he maintains a "carbon neutral" lifestyle by buying "carbon offsets," but the company that receives his payments turns out to be partly owned and chaired by the former vice president himself. There are many others, here's a few more who love GW..
Anyone with a vested interest in Nuclear Power
Anyone with a vested interest in Renewable Energy
Insurance Companies
Current Energy Producers
Energy Retail Companies
Carbon Offset companies
The German Government has discovered that its policies and investments in reducing greenhouse gas emissions have had "zero negative effect" on the economy ... while producing 450,000 new jobs. It takes the smallest of logical leaps to realize that if nearly half a million people went from being on unemployment benefit to paying taxes, the government's investment in reducing climate change will earn it billions of dollars.
Toyota's "Environment and Social Report 2004," spent 201 billion yen on "environmental costs." the document states that 260 billion yen in additional purchases were generated which means that Toyota is making roughly a 30% return on its "environmental costs".
Climate Group co-organizer Michael Northrop reported that six major companies -- IBM, DuPont, BT (British Telecom), Alcan, Norske Canada and Bayer -- had each reduced CO2 emissions by at least 60 percent since the early 1990s ... and collectively made more than $4 billion in the process.
The construction industry is also cashing in. Extra cost for buildings to meet "green" standards is about two percent extra compared to non green. The result of that additional two-percent outlay can be up to ten times the "premium", probably more as people continue to rush headlong into 'buying green'.
Blackle.com, the eco-friendly version of Google in Australia claim they’re saving the planet, but all that’s really been saved is the piles of money they’re banking. They use a black screen instead of a white background claiming it saves thousands of watts of power a year because it took less juice for a monitor to display black than white. Hundreds of thousands of searches a day are conducted by users who use the search engine instead of Google because they believe they’re doing their bit for the environment. But that claim is now being disputed by those who have tested the theory and say the power saving benefits are negligible or non-existent.
Nuclear energy is back in the news and the price of Uranium has increased dramatically and continues to rise at an incredible rate. In 2003 the price was around five pounds per pound, the price is now around fifty pounds a pound. Same product, bigger profit.
As global warming becomes more and more prominent the tax on ego based transportation will continue to increase. Earlier this week London introduced this 200 quid tax on HGVs but how is it helping to save the planet any more than airline tax.
Here's a couple of idea's for you to make money through so called GW. Write a book denying global warming exists, that it's all a socialist plot. Plenty of suckers will buy it or develop a cat converter to fit to the rear-end of cows, that should be a real winner! Start an investment company that sells stock in "green" companies and carbon credits, then make a movie that shows how the world is on its last legs. If you really want to play with the big boys; get a bill passed that mandates everyone buys a product from one of the companies you recommend. They'll love you, and you'll make heaps of cash. Problem is, it's already history.
Insurance is the second-largest industry in the world in terms of assets, and has a direct link to most home owners and businesses. It also has the ability to change behaviour and policies.
Peter Michaelis, who runs the Norwich Union Sustainable Future fund, recommends the UK-based firm Romag, which fits glass round solar cells. “Many new office buildings are keen on having some form of solar energy,” he said. The firm supplied the mayor of London’s office.
He likes solar energy stocks such as the Renewable Energy Corporation, a Norwegian company that produces the silicon used in solar panels. Michaelis says the firm will double in size in the next couple of years. Michaelis also recommends Eco-securities, Trading Emissions and Camco, all of which source carbon credits for sale into the European trading scheme. I'm not going into that one as the thing is an obvious joke.
This is just a minuscule example of how people are making money out of others fear.
If you feel that strongly about GW then I ask all of you, what are YOU doing about it? How have you changed your lifestyle and of those you influence. Have you really done any serious research into the subject?
After 30 years in the media business there is one saying that still rings true; Never let the truth get in the way of a good story, there's no money in it. |