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It won’t do to say that since these stranded assets were never sold in the first place, their disappearance shouldn’t matter. That’s not how finance works. These fossil fuel reserves are assets and, as such, they are on the books already. They have been used as collateral for loans and often leveraged far beyond their actual value. If they disappear, the world economy will collapse like a house of cards.
And yet, they have to disappear.
Paying Ourselves to Decarbonize | NOEMA
Kim Stanley Robinson
Incidentally, the first, much thinner edition of that atlas, produced in 1896, divided clouds into ten basic types, of which the plumpest and most cushiony-looking was number nine, cumulonimbus.* That seems to have been the source of the expression “to be on cloud nine.”
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Under an egalitarian relational account, datafication is wrong because (or when) it materializes unjust social relations: relations of exploitation and social category formation that enact or amplify social inequality. Under this account, the relevant legal question is not: was this data subject rendered legible against their will or without recompense? But rather, does such legibility enact or amplify unequal social relations of oppression, exploitation, or domination?
Data Governance for a Society of Equals
lpeproject.org
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