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If you can't decide whether you're an ecomodernist, consider that the degrowthers, climate doomers, and people who think we should all be farmers describe ecomodernism as the opposite of what they believe.
Alex Trembath
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Alex Trembath
@atrembath
- Look shutting down Europe’s nuclear power plants may have increased dependence on Russian natural gas but at least it also increased air pollution, delayed decarbonization, and further eroded the credibility of Green Parties and the broader environmental movement.
- San Francisco: A SKYSCRAPER IS SINKING INTO THE EARTH *bans scooters* WE USED THE WRONG GIANT BOLTS ON THE BAY BRIDGE *bans cafeterias* THE GROUND IN HUNTERS POINT IS RADIOACTIVE *bans straws* THE BRAND NEW TRANSBAY TERMINAL IS COLLAPSING *bans delivery robots*
- It took 19 years to complete the bus rapid transit lane on Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco.The highway overpass collapsed just ***9 days ago*** Progress is a policy choice.
- Climate change isn't *causing* tweet storms, but it is making them more frequent and severe.
- If Pornhub can require verification then so can Twitter.
- Nobody tell Willett that nuclear energy has the lowest land use and material footprint of any energy technology.
Nuclear plants are extremely expensive to build and can take a decade plus, so they’ll mostly remain a tech bro pipe dream. But Zohran was right the first time when he noted the devastating impacts of extraction on indigenous communities. - In which @JimPethokoukis identifies the core flaw with the “Earth is dying” sci-fi of Blade Runner, Interstellar, Avatar, etc: being multiplanetary requires a level of abundance that would solve terrestrial problems too. open.substack.com/pub/fasterplea…
- "An average American today is more than twice as wealthy as an average American was the year The Population Bomb was published, yet generates 30 percent fewer carbon emissions and uses 50 percent less land for their diet."Some assume that economic growth is inherently at odds with saving the planet. Actually it's closer to the other way round. Economic growth often takes the form of new technology, and new technology usually does less damage to the environment.
- Just preserving German nuclear capacity could have a greater emissions impact that the aviation emissions of these nine major economies. via @wang_seaver @OSGuido @TheBTI thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/…
- A typical American now emits less CO2 than one did before the invention of the Haber-Bosch process, hydraulic fracturing, jet engines, and organochlorine pesticides.There is much, much more to do, but from what I can tell it is not widely understood that US per-capita CO₂ emissions have fallen below WWI levels: ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emi…
- 18-29 year olds rank climate change 12th among 16 prominent areas of concern according to new Harvard Youth Poll. iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/47t…
- “I think it's worth asking whether there is some level of badness at which you personally would stop wearing dinosaur costumes to protests.” @slatestarcodex and @TheStalwart convergence
- What's remarkable about the climate movement is that it's really not populated by "climate hawks" laser-focused on reducing carbon emissions, but by OG environmentalists who like to use the existential threat of climate change to advocate for their ideological agenda.
