Wall Street Funds Climate Disaster
Jan Martijn Burger
2023
DIMENSIONS
22 3/4 x 17 1/4 in. (57.8 x 43.8 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.7690
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
United States
CREDIT LINE
Poster House Permanent Collection
KEYWORDS
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This poster is part of a series produced by the Stop the Money Pipeline coalition, a grassroots organization that aims to hold the financial sector accountable for its support of corporations that damage the planet. Like the poster for the Green New Deal, this design references the style most commonly associated with WPA posters. Banking on Climate Chaos—an organization that tracks the financing of fossil-fuel companies—estimates that U.S. banks have loaned $4.6 trillion dollars to that sector since the Paris Climate Agreement went into force in November 2016. RBC of Canada was the largest lender to the global fossil-fuel industry in 2022, with JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Citibank also among the top five lenders. Climate activist groups such as Third Act (which focuses on people over the age of 60) are encouraging consumers to move bank and credit-card accounts from large fossil-fuel lenders to other financial institutions that either do not lend to this sector or are moving quickly to withdraw their support from those industries. As more than 70 percent of the wealth in the United States is held by people over 60, this form of peaceful protest is well designed to have a dramatic impact on the domestic banking system.

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