The $20 Trillion Carbon Bubble: Interview With John Fullerton, Part One

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March 26, 2012

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John Fullerton, the founder and president of the Capital Institute, sees the global economy heading for a crash that would dwarf the subprime crisis and the Great Depression. He also envisions a future where the economy is based not on consumption and competition for resources but on personal well-being. An essential finding that drives his work is what he calls the 'stranded asset problem.' Fullerton explains the extraordinary challenge of the $20 trillion carbon bubble. Randy Wray has described the current state of the commodities market as the biggest speculative bubble of all time, but the carbon bubble is even greater. In order to avoid catastrophic global warming, the Carbon Tracker Initiative found, we need to keep 80 percent of known carbon reserves buried in the ground.By Fullerton's estimates, this unburnable carbon is valued at $20 trillion...

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JP Morgan....... by Vaikunthanath Kaviraj on Monday, Mar 26, 2012 at 6:08:04 PM

Sounds like hogwash to me by Mike Preston on Monday, Mar 26, 2012 at 6:59:49 PM

As a surprise to most people, I will agree with Fullerton. by Paul Repstock on Monday, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:37:43 PM

Go ahead. by Vaikunthanath Kaviraj on Tuesday, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:20:23 AM

The red herring by steve windisch on Tuesday, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:23:58 AM