City Atlas: This is not likely in the critical period we're in now -- 1/n A good guide here, from Cambridge University: www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/new-res...

the climate story right now is in a very weird state of flux a) the warming we've priced in is bad and really starting to show itself b) the renewable story is astoundingly good and getting better we are left with "warming is going to get worse but almost certainly not as much as it could have"

it's always important to demand better, but part of the reason that the story of climate policy isn't sticking is partly because bad news feels more plausible and partly because the people most invested in this policy understand its limits. www.notus.org/biden-2024/v... hard to sell "mixed-positive"

Biden’s Record Is Full of Climate Wins — So Why Don’t Voters Know It?www.notus.org Environmental groups are making a concerted effort to educate voters about President Joe Biden’s climate policies ahead of the election.

Ok so if allow myself total blue sky hope, here’s where I think we may end up; basically boundless carbon free energy with a marginal cost approaching zero, which would utterly transform basically…everything

This is not likely in the critical period we're in now -- 1/n A good guide here, from Cambridge University: www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/new-res...

New resource: Tick Zero’s Real Climate Solutionswww.eng.cam.ac.uk By the end of the century, over one billion people living near the equator are at risk of starvation as a result of climate change. We know that the surface temperature of our planet is increasing,

2/n Tom Murphy's class at UC San Diego turned into a textbook on energy. It's readable and clear: escholarship.org/uc/energy_am...

Energy Ambitions Collectionescholarship.org

Yeah I don’t think in the next 10-15, but in the second half of this century

The most downloaded report from Cambridge has a checkmark on it symbolizing that hope -- we curb energy use now (because it's still fossil-driven), then come up with a full replacement in the second half of the century. ukfires.org/impact/publi...

Or maybe by then we've calmed down a bit. (Also, energy is just one constraint.) Here's a free planning game for the century -- the politics may be unrealistic but the energy and biosphere metrics are accurate: play.half.earth

Half-Earth Socialism: The Gameplay.half.earth Play as a planetary planner and decide what we should do about the climate, biodiversity, and human welfare. Can you bring the world safely to a better place?

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