In the tech world we have a bunch of crypto bag holder VCs backing Trump hoping their investment will then pay off. Nothing to see there other than the moral emptiness expected of these people.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24204706/marc-andreessen-ben-horowitz-a16z-trump-donations
A quick look to what’s awaiting Germany-which has bet heavily on hydrogen cars-several decades in the future. California has a hydrogen highway which looks like it is on its way out.
Super useful and unfortunately increasingly relevant article about all the ways scientists are trying to quantify perceived heat.
Coffee is already incredibly under pressure due to climate change. The last thing it needs is well meaning but harmful legislative burdens from the EU.
Coming from an area in the center of Turkey where water was always scarce, it’s not really possible to be surprised by this development. Though if you talk to people locally of course many of them will continue to deny deveolpments because they have no other option.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-the-climate-bakes-turkey-faces-a-future-without-water
But the nuclear exit decision was taken a generation ago and other than political troublemaking, nothing is served by wailing over spilled milk.
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-259-germanys-co2-emissions?r=3xsrv&utm_medium=email
Old people screwing over future generations until we all die of climate change. A still life.
A comparison of the sustainability of different kinds of bikes and how progress in cycling has often come at the price of sustainability. Still however you spin it, electric cycling is much more efficient and sustainable than driving.
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/02/can-we-make-bicycles-sustainable-again
“This was an act of self-defense.”
Very much looking forward to the movie “How to Blow Up A Pipeline”.
Here’s an absolutely staggering number to take with you: four trillion dollars per annum
That’s what it takes to turn the entire world sustainable. That’s an awful lot of money but also it’s not that much more than things like military expenditures or the assets of a handful of billionaires.
As Tooze says:
Rather than shrinking away from the $ 4 trillion in shock the really striking thing about it, is that it is far from utopian. If we take the Songwe, Stern, Bhattacharya figures at face value then the explosive conclusion is that sustainable development for the entire planet is within reach. All the more egregious and inexcusable will be our failure, if we do not. It is one thing to fail grandly in the face of an impossible challenge, it is quite another not to do something of immense important that is, in fact, manageable.
We can leave it at that.
Sustainable development is totally possible and it’s being blocked by a minority elite who stand to lose a bunch of assets and revenues if we would do this.