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Banks have given almost $7tn to fossil fuel firms since Paris deal, report reveals
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 13 May 2024
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First time I see "tn" used
Just wanted to write that. If 1 billion is unimaginable to us regular people, a thousand more of these is something completely unreal.
7,000,000,000,000
We are all sooooo fucked!
Sure that number might look big. BUT YOU DON'T FEEL IT just looking at it.
And that's seven trillion right ther'. That's 7000 billion. Whew. P.S Rip Byron. We hardly knew ye.
There is so much to do with that amount of money. Like building 100m of that neom city.
Bro such a great idea!! Like a long city in the dessert, like a line, bro, like this line right here, like it'll totally, fucking climate change, like it's the future, I swear, the most insane, just imagine the internet, in like, it's a line, and, hear me out, it's in the dessert, that'll show that we don't, like, it's not just oil and patria-, bro like get the black AMEX r.e.a.d.y., I need the concierge service to deliver me some fucking Canadian lobster up this bitch right now,