The world’s going to pot; let’s get rich
Christopher Flavin, president of the highly respected Worldwatch Institute, is quoted in this Reuters article about the “massive” business opportunities that come with environmental threats such as global warming and water scarcity. “I believe we will look back on this period as being a turning point,” said Flavin, adding that we’ve hit a “perfect storm” in terms of threats to natural resources and environmental quality. “I would argue now there is a lot of similarity where we were with oil 100 years ago. This year will be the first that Iowa puts more (corn) into its ethanol plants than it exports. We really are in the middle of a paradigm shift.”
His best quote: “You’d have to be an idiot not to make money out of biofuels.”
BTW: The Worldwatch Institute released a new report this week called “Biofuels for Transportation.” Click here for links to the press release, report summary and full report.
Tyler Hamilton is editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights magazine and a business columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the clean technology and green energy market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper.
June 12th, 2006 at 8:09 am
This reminds me of when I heard business leaders salivating about the new shipping opportunities that would open up when the frozen North wasn’t so frozen anymore. Some people are perfectly content to be a part of the problem, I suppose.