Podcast Friday - Green Growth is possible
Jan. 10th, 2025 12:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frandroidI have so many episodes to post here. Instead of trying to make a mega-post, I'll reduce the mountain one pebble at a time.
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One of the maddening problems that people who want to fight global warming face is twofold:
1) the people who think greens are asking that we stop all consumption
2) the greens who are fundamentally asking that, even though they know they can't just say that out loud.
I found this Ezra Klein interview of Hannah Ritchie quite interesting:
Is Green Growth Possible?
She debunks a lot of received ideas about what is and isn't possible, and why every step we take is important even if we exceed +1.5C by 2030 (if we haven't exceeded it already...) Of course we must also defeat capitalism, and AI is a new and potent threat (which I suspect is going to resolve itself much faster than anticipated, due to lack of patience from Wall Street plus efficiency advances in AI itself), but these battles are not over, and she explains why every gain matters.
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One of the maddening problems that people who want to fight global warming face is twofold:
1) the people who think greens are asking that we stop all consumption
2) the greens who are fundamentally asking that, even though they know they can't just say that out loud.
I found this Ezra Klein interview of Hannah Ritchie quite interesting:
Is Green Growth Possible?
She debunks a lot of received ideas about what is and isn't possible, and why every step we take is important even if we exceed +1.5C by 2030 (if we haven't exceeded it already...) Of course we must also defeat capitalism, and AI is a new and potent threat (which I suspect is going to resolve itself much faster than anticipated, due to lack of patience from Wall Street plus efficiency advances in AI itself), but these battles are not over, and she explains why every gain matters.
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Date: 2025-01-13 04:38 pm (UTC)It would be nice if we got rid of all fossil fuels before this paradox hit these economics. I think this is where we really need to keep going forward with increasing carbon taxes.