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Comment by treypitt | Hacker News Reader

Wow. Rising sharply, from what, 0%? Assuming the size of the US public markets is the largest in the world, and that we needed to take action decades ago to prevent climate change's worst effects, these statistics place the blame squarely on large corporations

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Better late than never, says the optimist. If you break these numbers down by industry it looks like climate risk is primarily identified by (european) financials. Fiscal 2019:

             US  EUR APAC
   financls  12% 37% 16%
     energy   8% 20% 12%
  materials   8% 24%  7%
  utilities   3% 22%  7%
  industrls   3% 12%  3%
   consumer   5% 14%  4%
      telco   3% 12%  -
       tech   3%  8%  -
   healthcr   3% 11%  -

No, blame is spread also on consumer mentality, consumer love a new and shiny, brainwashing advertising, economic thinkers pushing the idea of continual growth. Etc etc etc.

Our whole culture is culprit. Like, When people preach not to use plastic straws, while they define themselves by the shiny crap they excessively shop online.

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