How to Stop Worrying and Love the Bulldozer
The best way forward, he argues, is to do everything: cut emissions, work on carbon removal, and look a lot more seriously at geoengineering.
Elizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
“Moving away from the kind of monomania that says, ‘The only thing we can do is cut emissions,’ or the more narrow version, which says, ‘The only thing we can do is renewables,’ I think may actually secure broader political agreement to deal with the problem. People might be more willing to spend the big money to cut emissions as part of a project
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
Don’t, as Kenneth Boulding once said, go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all.
Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller
EXPLOREWORK IN PROGRESSThe Forgotten Stage of Human ProgressInvention is easily overrated, and implementation is often underrated.By Derek ThompsonA light bulb shatters.Al Barry / Stringer / GettyMAY 11, 2022SHARESign up for Derek’s newsletter here.What if we invented a technology to save the planet—and the world refused to use it?This haunting hyp... See more
The Atlantic • The Forgotten Stage of Human Progress
