Billion-dollar baby steps – now THIS is how to transition to green energy
A handful of good clichés can get you through life. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Don’t eat yellow snow. Here’s another interesting one – learn to walk before you run. On the surface, it’s kind of dumb […]
We have lost the energy plot – maybe a fossil-fuel-fast would get us back on course
What do you think of when you hear of someone fasting? Not the trendy ultra-hip cleanse/fast habits, where some easily-swayed subset of the population is convinced that physical and emotional enlightenment will come from eating grass for 48 hours followed by 5 gallons of chicken soup, because someone like Gwyneth Paltrow recommends it. No, I’m […]
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 […]
