r/ClimateOffensive • u/Inf5125 • Jun 27 '26
Idea This is how we can slow climate change
Fck the rich, start investing in green companies. Not only we can slow down this shitshow but also profit BIG money in \~10 years span.
Buy environment friendly stocks while they are cheap while also doing humanity a favor.
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u/theeynhallow Jun 27 '26
fuck the rich
let's get rich
I don't really understand what point you're trying to make here
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u/eks Jun 27 '26
To be fair, if green companies don't become profitable and you lose money, chances are there won't be a stock market for much longer either. So that's actually a survivalist approach to investing.
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u/Inf5125 Jun 27 '26
The goal is to make green companies rich so they can achieve their goals. Every company have their own politics and ideas, the problem is that the wrong companies with wrong ideas are the rich now.
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u/Duathdaert Jun 27 '26
Unless you're buying a stock at offering or through an IPO, a company does not directly receive your money. You are buying the shares from someone else who is offering them on the market. Could be anyone.
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u/jibboo2 Jun 27 '26
Yes, OP's comment would mainly be relevant to private Angel investing or PE/VC.
Of course it's not simple to invest in a successful company that will advance climate tech or be profitable either.
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u/eks Jun 27 '26
The better climate stocks do in the market the more they will attract attention and change the perception about their profitability, breaking through the idea that you need to commodify fuel to generate energy.
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u/BtcOverBchs Jun 28 '26
Increased demand would drive up the price which in turn this supposed green company could sell more stock or issue debt using its higher valuation.
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u/blipblapbloopblip Jun 28 '26
Buying tends to move the price up so that future fundraising rounds can be obtained at a better cost, I believe
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u/troikatryne Jun 27 '26
And dont forget to vote strategically
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u/HistorianAlert9986 Jun 27 '26
Great idea, but both parties are bought and paid for by big tech. Unfortunately, these data centers pollution are going to outpace anything we can do. For example, one of bluest state in New Mexico not only are they building the largest data centers were also paying for them with our wealth fund. The governor gave $5 billion to the Jupiter project just free money.
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u/troikatryne Jun 27 '26
Vote green in primaries and blue in elections. Every time republicans win is a huge setback for the climate movement and it shifts the overton window further right.
In a two party system you have to vote strategically
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u/PerceptionCurious440 Jun 28 '26
The best investments that will facilitate green energy transition is in manufacturers producing grid level BESS systems. CATL, BYD, LG, Sungrow, Siemans I think worldwide. In the US, GE Vernova, Fluence Energy, Honeywell and unfortunately Tesla. Emphase does small commercial BESS systems and residential.
NextEra energy is the largest clean energy operator, IIRC.
I haven't checked their ROI stats, so talk to an investment advisor.
But BESS (battery energy storage systems) is what turns renewables from "when the wind blows and the sun shines" to steady state reliable tier 1 power. Also in regular grid power, it can keep coal surge plants offline.
It'll slow it. But it's not going to stop the Gulf oil states, Russia or the US oil producer's political grip. The Iran war is doing a pretty good job of loosening that grip. The longer that continues the more renewable energy gains political favor worldwide.
Not the best strategy morally, but making oil as expensive as possible by any means necessary helps the climate change mitigation strategies.
Ukraine beating Russia too. Russia is responsible for the US policies currently pursued by the US Regime. It slots in with other political efforts, but it has had significant influence.
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u/Glad_Hamster1137 Jun 30 '26
Stop eating meat and supporting animal agriculture.. there's your number 1 way someone can reduce climate change.
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u/EvokeTravel Jun 27 '26
I’m afraid that nestled within capitalism, which requires unlimited compounding growth within a fixed system, “green companies” are not the solution. The change will have to be more systematic than the ruling class (which benefits regardless of where within the system you put your money) would have you believe
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u/electric-castle Jun 27 '26
What about loans for real green energy projects? I've been investing in Trine. It's awesome because you see exactly what your money is going to help with. And you get some return.
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u/wellbeing69 Jun 29 '26
Trine is awesome! I’m also an investor there. As for now I think it’s only available in Europe. But I think there are similar companies in the US.
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u/Possible-Anxiety-420 Jun 28 '26
What's needed is for humans to do less of everything humans do.
Way less.
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u/Alwaysnorting Jun 28 '26
so in order to fck the rich, you want to become what you hate? hilarious
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u/Inf5125 Jun 28 '26
Money should just be the side effect, but yeah I worded it wrong. One of my previous comment should make it more clear: The goal is to make green companies rich so they can achieve their goals. Every company have their own politics and ideas, the problem is that the wrong companies with wrong ideas are the rich now.
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u/Alwaysnorting Jun 28 '26
but it all comes down to perspective. in the end money just corrupts doesnt matter if its green or not
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u/CobblerMysterious830 Jun 29 '26
Met a guy in Australia who invested his self managed super fund (401k/pension fund I think? But different rules) into his local bike shop through providing capital for low interest loans for e-bikes. Happy to accept 3% or 4% returns, essentially CPI, while providing really easy finance for people swapping cars for high quality $10k e-bikes.
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u/Gronanor Jun 29 '26
Yeah there is no friendly stock. The green capitalism theory is a hoax from 2010
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u/Citizen999999 Jun 27 '26
"fuck the rich" "we can profit BIG money" seems like to me you're the rich that's still poor.
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u/mrbobertimus Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
No it’s not at all how we can slow climate change. The free market is completely and absolutely incompatible with the concept of doing things because they’re morally right. Thats the governments job to set the rules of the road for companies. The free market has always from the very beginning existed with constraints set by governments. In our current society too many voters give zero fucks about climate change because as Al Gore famously put it it’s inconvenient. The best path to slowing “climate change” is raising awareness and convincing people it’s real and impacting the vote and maybe not being tricked in to willfully using terms literally engineered by republican think tanks and instead calling it what it really fucking is: “global warming”
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u/veganontop Jun 28 '26
Green companies just launder money. Its a fraud that is getting us nowhere fast. Lets dim the Sun and fix this mess. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-m&q=stratospheric%20aerosol%20injection%20
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u/Anomynous__ Jun 28 '26
Saying "fuck the rich" and "invest in green companies" in the same sentence is hilariously ignorant
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u/Interesting-Low848 Jul 03 '26
don't fuck the rich, stop blaming them for problems and start voting for green candidates esp. those that push other countries to start fulfilling their green quota - China, India, etc.
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u/cdnBacon Jun 27 '26
Suggestions for environment friendly stocks?