Emily Cunningham

3) how freak'n costly climate chaos is! Damn. But reading the replies in your "inverted yield curve" thread, maybe we can keep borrowing from ourselves and since our national debt doesn't really matter, it's not really something to worry about? 5/

4) the inevitability of the carbon bubble pop. Fossil fuel companies' valuation is based on reserves of oil being used. But... if that were to happen, the results would be truly catastrophic. More and more people are realizing this, which shakes investor confidence. 6/

4 continued) Since so much of our economy is based on fossil fuels, and a smooth transition to renewable energy seems unlikely, this seems like a big, ah, stresser. 7/

And it's why I'm trying to closely follow shifts the fossil fuel to solar/wind transition. I'm an absolute novice in this subject, so trying to read and learn as much as I can - fast! Got excited about this 8/https://twitter.com/emahlee/status/1162180541577220096 …

I'm also trying to follow what's happening in finance. Seems very big. Thread on how central bankers, fund managers, global investors are all sounding the alarm. 9/https://twitter.com/emahlee/status/1131794951811919874 …

Anywho, this thread is getting entirely too long. It's been hard to find those who are both finance experts AND understand the enormity of climate and its impacts. Most finance peeps still operate in the old paradigm that doesn't consider/ "get" climate. Merci! /end

i do have a few thoughts in this but let me organize them. for one thing, for instance: action on climate-change is one thing that companies are judged on for “sustainability,” which is a hot topic in investing. Investors want sustainable companies. HOWEVER…

…a lot of “sustainability” is just self-reported stats from companies, many of them meaningless. So companies can just say they’re sustainable without anyone really being able to check. There’s a lot more on this as well, I have some notes. Give me a couple of days! ty.