
SUVs are taking over – the underreported story of what the world really buys
I have a bad habit of reading the news, it’s compulsive and very hard to break. It would be nice to be able to; modern hyper-coverage can addle the brain. I once took a screenshot of the Reuters commodity news page that had three consecutive headlines: one explained why oil prices were down, one explained […]

Climate fatigue? Worries that the public is losing interest in climate change shouldn’t be surprising
There is no such thing as the “rationality” of a belief, there is rationality of action. Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Skin in the Game Nothing lasts forever. A root canal feels like it will, and some baseball games, but even those come to an end. Fear epidemics are similar, they feel like they are […]