@erlend i applaud the effort…but not long ago we had a thriving news industry where fact-checking was the norm and readers/viewers/listeners had faith that the presentation was objective.
i wish there was more attention to reviving the industry (in new technologies) and in raising awareness that without a strong unbiased and healthy media we are growing less informed and more divisive.
thanks for the link. look forward to the report. dm me when you publish. thanks.
@erlend i should add that my reaction above is to your first article on your site.
i have long objected to the “value” and emphasis on growth, often at all costs. i wish “improve” and “do better” were valued more.
Nobody likes #degrowth. It sounds like a downturn and reeks of a return to a less comfortable past. What if we instead sell it as a change of parameters? A vision of progress, but measured in things like hapiness and meaningfulness instead of production and consumption?
Should we continue emitting copious amounts of carbon, expecting future technology to save us? Absolutely not.
Should we be hopeful technological advancements will help mitigate the impacts of #ClimateChange? Absolutely yes.
It will always be cheaper, wiser, and more equitable to reduce emissions today than to remove them in the future, #degrowth, but improving efficiency of direct air capture is something we should celebrate as a needed complement.
This was an interesting email to receive today. It reminded me of some things we discussed back on The Oil Drum about this very thing (the online archive still available: http://theoildrum.com/special/archives ) - how paving over all the old city & county gravel roads had introduced a pile of fixed costs (not just paving, but regular re-grading, snow plowing, etc) that towns would eventually have to shed.
In other words, at some point in the not too distant future, they will start turning roads back into gravel roads, slowly but surely, starting at the very outside edges and creeping inward until only a certain core of local paved roads remains.