For some, the global climate change crisis has been a call to action, the occasion for some of the biggest environmental movements of our time. For others, it’s a business opportunity.

In Greenland, that’s meant rushing to mine and drill the Arctic. For the Israelis, it’s been a chance to market their mastery of artificial snowmaking (look for their techniques at work during the Sochi Olympics). The Dutch, no strangers to floods, are farming out their services to create sea-level-rise barriers, including to a post-Sandy New York. Major financial institutions in New York and London have recognized increased preciousness of water rights and farmland, and have invested their money accordingly.

Journalist McKenzie Funk spent the past six years traveling the world to document ‘the booming business of global warming.” He spoke with Salon about the resulting book, ‘Windfall,” which makes the compelling case that the effects of climate change are even more unequal than we’ve been led to believe. This interview has been lightly edited for space and clarity.

Profiting off the very thing that’s bringing us down – in some ways, you make global warming sound a lot like the financial crisis. Do you see the people you interviewed as being as […]