Blackrock is a huge advocate of those kinds of policies. They were given the task of carrying out the Federal Reserve's asset purchase program in response to COVID-19. And that to me is quite interesting from a climate perspective, because if you are lobbying for that kind of support run states using their kind of monetary firepower it provides this kind of implicit backstop against small shocks.
Paris Marx is joined by Adrienne Buller to discuss how the tech and finance industries are selling us false solutions to the climate crisis that are designed for their own benefit.
Adrienne Buller is the Director of Research at Common Wealth and the author of The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism. Follow Adrienne on Twitter at @adribuller.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
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