My Way Of Thinking Mark Carwardine

The broadcaster and campaigner discusses the financial world’s influence on climate change, and invites your thoughts on the subject.

What’s the point in avoiding plastic bags, recycling, turning off the lights and walking instead of taking the car, if our hard-earned money is doing more harm than all these environmentally friendly endeavours put together?

While many banks, building societies, hedge funds and pension providers pay lip service to the environment, they are quietly financing the destruction of the planet. Their money – our money – is enabling oil companies to drill in the Arctic, agribusinesses to clear virgin tropical rainforest and governments to construct gargantuan dams across rivers.

But while the financial world continues to show either a staggering ignorance – or a reckless disregard for anything or anyone else – the rest of the world is waking up to the fact that there can be no more free passes for its unethical investment decisions.