"You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history has happened on that pixel… I believe this is a moral issue. It is your time to seize this issue; it is our time to rise again to secure our future."
I remember hearing those lines as a year-old veteran in the financial industry in 2006. For those who cannot quite place it, it is from a film called An Inconvenient Truth, presented by Al Gore. After I had watched the film, my first reaction was to question whether all that I had heard and seen on the screen - was all that true? 15 years on, not only are we all agreed that it is true, but also, ideas highlighted in the film are completely front and centre, and even being considered as a 'new normal' in investing. A false dawn or green revolution? Picking apart the UK Government's...
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