Also, climate change would be more related to cumulative oil production, rather than annual.
True. I tested the correlation between S&P 500 price and cumulative oil production and got r=0.81 (p < 1e-29).
Investing in companies with large food storage would be a particularly good hedge against abrupt food catastrophes.
That’s a neat idea. It behaves more like insurance—most of the time it doesn’t do much, but when it matters, it will give you a lot of money.
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True. I tested the correlation between S&P 500 price and cumulative oil production and got r=0.81 (p < 1e-29).
That’s a neat idea. It behaves more like insurance—most of the time it doesn’t do much, but when it matters, it will give you a lot of money.