Economics / Finance / Business
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For an un-clean
business-plan
flow-chart,
scroll below.
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A Business Plan (flow-chart) for monetizing pollution:
Fossil-fuel companies look for coal/gas/oil.
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Deposit is suspected - go below v
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If nothing likely - go to the right >
They dig or drill or virtually explore, to find an accumulation of fossil fuel.
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If a deposit is found v
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If no deposit >
If the deposit may be "rich", they
ask investors for up-front money.
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If no investors agree to give $ >
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If investors provide funds v
With investor cash, they buy rights to where the fossil-fuel is.
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Go below v
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If unable to purchase rights >
Nothing thought to be there.
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Start over. Look elsewhere.
No deposit found - go above ^
Unable to come up with funding for the project.
Return to beginning ^
Without rights from government officials, project is stymied...
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Corrupt payments, lawsuits, or intimidation could be tried...
Otherwise, go above ^
Drilling/fracking/mining operations are set up.
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If fossil fuel is unearthed v
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If unable to obtain the material >
After extraction, the raw material gets transported for processing.
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Assume no major problems v
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If unable to transport >
After processing,
the product is transported to a "buyer/purchaser".
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Sell product to "buyer" v
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No one wants to buy the product >
Can logistics problem be resolved?
If so, return to left <
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If not, argue with investors about how to split financial losses ^
If transportation problems are unsolvable ^
An odd situation, but one could sell it at a loss.
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Go two steps up ^
"Buyers" burn the fuel in order to accomplish a profitable task
(or sell to customers to burn).
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If goes as planned v
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If consumers won't pay >
Consumers pay the "buyer" for the services/item v
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Citizens refuse to buy the services/item >​
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Pollution goes into the atmosphere as a by-product of the burning;
plants, animals, & people
suffer and/or die.
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Go back to the beginning to repeat the business cycle ^
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Or...boycott >
Consumers don't pay as expected.
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The price could be dropped and sold at a loss ^
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Or the buyer may try again later, when economic factors change.
People don't pay because of unusual situation (i.e., pandemic) ^
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People don't pay because of moral commitment to boycott pollution v
Boycott disrupts this scenario.
Fossil-fuels stay in the ground.
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Investors lose $, corporations go bankrupt, employees lose jobs.
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Lives are saved, investors place ($) bets on different businesses, employees try to find other work.
Other options to stop this toxic madness:
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Appeal to investors, boards of directors, and corporate CEO’s
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to stop seeking pollution-oriented profits?
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Convince political leaders to refuse campaign contributions
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from pollution-profiteering companies?
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Ask government leaders to make profits from pollution illegal?
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Ask voters to vote for candidates who will prohibit pollution?
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Ask polluting companies to no longer lobby political leaders?
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Ask them to stop using ads to convince people to ignore pollution?
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Ask commercial media owners to no longer accept those commercials?
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Ask workers in pollution-related jobs to go on strike until company
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bosses put the company out of business by leaving the fossil-fuel
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where it sits (and thereby laying off all the workers)?
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Or join a boycott of pollution?
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Investors have already moved some money into renewables.
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Will they be rewarded, or will they lose their bet (on "green")?
It depends upon consumers like you and me.
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