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Climate disasters and wars vie for global investor and political attention

SCMP Economy says capital is finite while political bandwidth and public focus are increasingly stretched by simultaneous crises.

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Capital is finite, but demands on political attention and public concern have risen as multiple global shocks unfold at the same time, leaving markets with less room to absorb volatility, according to SCMP Economy.

The outlet describes this year as having forced governments and investors to juggle security spending linked to wars, heightened market volatility, and climate-related disasters hitting different regions nearly simultaneously.

SCMP Economy argues climate change has not waited for other crises to fade, instead pushing itself onto the front page even as other global events compete for attention.

The article frames the resulting situation as a shared resource problem, where limited money and limited bandwidth are increasingly asked to handle multiple emergencies at once.

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