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A “climate strike” will take place in more than 1,000 locations in the US on Friday, with major rallies in New York, Washington DC, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Miami, in addition to more than 4,500 strikes are planned across 150 countries. Although the conventional wisdom about climate change is that it will limit economic growth -- with estimates that global temperature increases will chop 7.2 percent off per capita GDP by 2100 creating the loss of entire industries -- there will also be winners. People, places, and firms that wind up, whether by design or by coincidence, in a position to profit from the crisis and the ways we respond to it.