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Related: About this forumIs Climate Change America's Lost Opportunity--and Can We Get It Back?
Scientists sounded an alarm as a familiar dance beganone of denial, debate, and eventual, albeit hesitant, action from industry and the U.S. government.
This isnt only a tale of the past; its a mirror of our present climate crisis, a corporate thriller that spans decades, in which those who once denied the problem can emerge as the heroes. The ozone case study offers a stark parallel to todays climate change debate and an important lesson about business, sustainability, and American competitiveness on the global stage.
To get started, lets go back forty years in time (you can crimp your hair if youd like).
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbooksauthors/2024/10/09/is-climate-change-americas-lost-opportunity-and-can-we-get-it-back/
2naSalit
(92,705 posts)Think. Again.
(17,983 posts)....that the climate situation we've allowed ourselves to get in is being viewed as only a business opportunity that may have been lost, like waiting too long to buy a stock.
Can it really be true that there are successful business people who don't understand that if we let climate change go too far, there won't be any such thing as "business" anymore?
SamKnause
(13,804 posts)To many feedback loops have been activated.
Everything on this planet has been affected:
Insects (bees for pollination)
Soil (lack nutrients, worms, water erosion, wind erosion)
Water (drinking water shortages, water pollution, oceans adding salt to rivers, sink holes from draining aquifers)
Plants (growing zones are changing at a rapid pace and plants cannot adapt quick enough & there is a decline in rice and wheat)
Ocean (acidification, dead zones, coral bleaching, fish population decline, pollution)
Mammals (monkeys in Mexico and India dying from extreme heat, people dying because of high wet bulb temperatures)
Icebergs (sea level rise, the Albedo Effect)
National Disasters ( tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, droughts, blizzards, fires)