Environmental Apocalypse Stock Photo Theater

Faceless Board Member 1: “We have a big problem.”

Faceless Board Member 2: “What’s that?”

Faceless Board Member 1: “There is a lot of money to be made in the energy transition. But people live where most of these metals and rare earth minerals are.”

Faceless Board Member 3: “Not many people.”

Faceless Board Member 4: “No one will make a fuss.”

Faceless Board Member 1: “People are getting more concerned about sacrifice zones. I just saw an article on it the other day.”

Faceless Board Member 5: “The FT?”

Faceless Board Member 6: “The Guardian?”

Faceless Board Member 1: “Substack.”

Faceless Board Members 2 - 8: UPROARIOUS LAUGHTER.

Faceless Board Member 2: “Don’t worry about it. Let nature take its course.”

Faceless Board Member 1: “What does that mean?”

Faceless Board Member 2: “Climate change is going to take a lot of these places offline, meaning no one will live there anymore. The people leave, but the metals and minerals stay. We can even hire the displaced people to work the mine for some good PR.”

Faceless Board Member 1: “I don’t know, a lot of people are going to die.”

Faceless Board Member 3: “When Stalin kills a million people, he’s a monster. When it happens because of Mother Nature, it’s in the news cycle for two days and then people move on. The more it happens, the less they will notice it even happening.

Faceless Board Member 4: “Climate change can be a real opportunity for us. A lot of natural resources that are under people’s feet now will become available when those people leave. The hotter it gets, the more drought there is, the more famine there is, the more opportunity.

Faceless Board Member 5: “I’ll get my marketing team started on the phrasing. We will be making the best of a bad situation. The land was lost to Mother Nature, the least we can do is try to get something to make something useful from the land that people can buy. Oooh, I’ve got it. How about … reclamation finance.”

Faceless Board Member 1: “I love it, let’s start a division with that name. I want it on a t-shirt.”