It will be worse than the 2008 mortgage meltdown and pretty much everybody in the financial sector is talking about what happens when the carbon bubble bursts.
Sheldon Whitehouse: “It will be worse than the 2008 mortgage meltdown and pretty much everybody in the financial sector is talking about what…”
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Whitehouse compares potential climate-related economic crises to the 2008 financial crisis.
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