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**A fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming world** McKenzie Funk has spent the last six years reporting around the world on how we are preparing for a warmer planet. Funk shows us that the best way to understand the catastrophe of global warming is to see it through the eyes of those who see it most clearlyas a market opportunity. Global warming’s physical impacts can be separated into three broad categories: melt, drought, and deluge. Funk travels to two dozen countries to profile entrepreneurial people who see in each of these forces a potential windfall. The melt is a boon for newly arable, mineral-rich regions of the Arctic, such as Greenlandand for the surprising kings of the manmade snow trade, the Israelis. The process of desalination, vital to Israel’s survival, can produce a snowlike by-product that alpine countries use to prolong their ski season. Drought creates opportunities for private firefighters working for insurance companies in California as well as for fund managers backing south Sudanese warlords who control local farmland. As droughts raise food prices globally, there is no more precious asset. The delugethe ri

Who reads Windfall : The Booming Business of Global Warming?

Author

Funk, McKenzie

Publisher

Penguin Press HC, The

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781594204012

Category

science

Subjects

Nature, Economics, Fiction

Rating

4.07 / 5 (326 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14