Many feel that we need to focus more attention (and resources) on adaptation: it’s already too late to reverse climate change apocalypse.
Category Archives: Future
Link from The Hill
“Buy American” rules should not apply to big infrastructure projects, like Metrorail, when result is uneconomic … taxpayers are stakeholders, here!
Link from Carbon Brief
Amory Lovins: nuclear is a money loser, renewables will continue to advance despite Trump, EVs are here now — will soon dominate, carbon removal is mostly about agriculture (put it back into soil), and natural gas may be worse than coal (stop that fracking!)
Links from Think Progress and The Atlantic
10% isn’t nearly enough, but it is a renewable energy milestone. Could be much greater with federal incentives — not likely in a Trump administration (despite Rick Perry’s history as a wind farm promoter in TX) Not sure a “non-human” language is necessarily bad … especially if it improves negotiating skills of robots!
Link from New York Times
“Prospection” … the quality that makes us human, say these scientists
Link from The Economist
Seems Marx getting bit of a revival on left these days … because rent-seeking now dominates capitalism
Link from Bloomberg
Old piece from Bloomberg, but needs to be recycled — if I’ve said it once, I can say it again: it’s all about demand — increase demand, you get economic growth!
Link from Nautilus
Is poverty genetic? … interesting scientific evidence
Link from Think Progress
Financial catastrophe in real estate may be first big impact of climate change in U.S. … says Joe Romm
Link from AlterNet — Review of Move Fast and Break Things
Hate Peter Thiel? Larry Page? Get Jonathan Taplin’s new book, “Move Fast and Break Things” — he hates the digital monopolies, mostly because they killed the music business. Interview from AlterNet.
