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In the course of writing How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, I developed a way to answer that question. I call it Green Premiums — the differences in cost between a fossil-fuel-based way of doing something and the clean, non-emitting way of doing the same thing.
Bill Gates • Bill Gates: My green manifesto
THE DIALECTIC OF ORDINARY DISASTER Once or twice each decade, Hawaii sends Los Angeles a big, wet kiss. Sweeping far south of its usual path,
Mike Davis • Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
highlighting the environmental protections purportedly shielding
Julian Hoffman • Irreplaceable: The fight to save our wild places
The hail in Texas was so big Tuesday that it required a new description Forecasters warned of “DVD-size hail” as stones larger than grapefruits bombarded an area near Lubbock.
Via @bloombergopinion: “Climate change is having a breakout performance this year. Throughout the U.S., the slow-motion calamity long described in scientific studies and news articles has been visible to the naked eye or felt on tingling flesh — here too wet, there too dry, everywhere too hot. It’s only human to wonder where the higher, safer... See more
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Reposted from @nymag Warming is described as an ecological crisis. But there is another way to conceive of climate change: as a moral catastrophe. For our latest cover story, David Wallace-Wells makes the case for climate reparations and speaks to some climate activists about our planet's current state. "When it comes to warming, you don’t have to... See more
instagram.comfinancing projects that might fail, but might turn into a clean-energy breakthrough.