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Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear ... and Geoeng ineering Are Necessary
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But occasionally some would find forecasts that would change their behavior enough to perturb the overall price pattern, causing other investors to change their forecasts to re-adapt. Cascades of mutual adjustment would then ripple through the system. The result was periods of tranquility followed randomly by periods of spontaneously generated
... See moreJessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
By redirecting water from farm areas to cities, California could easily provide enough water to sustain much higher density levels, which would reduce America’s carbon footprint.
Edward Glaeser • Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
Companies should reprioritize their R&D work, particularly on low-carbon innovations, many of which will require long-term commitments.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
cheap oil and expensive transmission lines aren’t the biggest drivers of the electricity Green Premium. The main culprits are our demand for reliability, and the curse of intermittency. The sun and
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
economical option—at least not with today’s technology. You’ll have to either use nuclear power or burn fossil fuels and grab the emissions with carbon-capture devices.