08
Sep
2023
The finance sector drives climate change and construction of shoddy housing that will be flooded by the resulting climate impacts.
So my example in the video is, if you have someone who works in the finance sector in Canary Wharf in London, odds are they live in one of the shoddily built, ugly, crappy new-build apartments around London that have these concrete constructions with these brick facades, and they're hideous, and they're everywhere, and a lot of them are being built on London's floodplains. The finance sector is driving investment, which is driving climate change, and it's also driving construction. So simultaneously, they are causing the building of these shitty houses that are also going to be flooded also by their work.