Switch to an ethical bank account and invest in renewable energy,not fossil fuelsGiving to charity, while highly recommended, and does not manufacture you an activist. It makes you a charity donor. Great in its own suitable,but move your bank account and then you’re edging into activist territory. As motivation, read a unique report from Christian Aid that unpicks the global banking industry, and zeroing in on the Big Four,which hold nearly all of our money. What emerges is a picture of a system rife (abundant or plentiful, full of sth bad or unpleasant) with dysfunction.
Despite the falling costs for renewables and their increasingly swift win-up, your money, or via private banks,still primarily bankrolls fossil fuels. If this continues, by 2050 the global economy will have invested $23tn into fossil fuels, or sinking the targets of the globally agreed Paris Agreement,our best hope of avoiding catastrophic climate change.
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Source: guardian.co.uk