Green New Deal

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EGEB: First major US offshore wind farm approved today [updated]

The first major US offshore wind farm in federal waters to be approved today; IEA raises its forecast for global wind and solar growth.

electrek.co

GND for fishes too, they'll be excited to have this new hangout.

 

[mspohr]

Any system that requires endless growth to continue is destined to fail.

Capitalism?

 

[JRP3]

Capitalism?

I don't think it does inherently, as long as wealth is circulated and not hoarded.

 

[eevee-fan]

I don't think it does inherently, as long as wealth is circulated and not hoarded.

That's why programs like EV tax credit actually trickles down to the poor while tax cuts do not. Can't really hoard EVs.

 

[eevee-fan]

Any system that requires endless growth to continue is destined to fail.

Except Amazon?

 

[eevee-fan]

Tech bros’ next move: Private cities without US government control

After dominating Silicon Valley in the past two decades, hiking up rent prices in the area and filling the streets with flannel vests and wool sneakers, they’re now spreading into other regio…

nypost.com

So good to be under the rule of other residents... definitely not government and never over reach.

 

[jerry33]

Tech bros’ next move: Private cities without US government control

After dominating Silicon Valley in the past two decades, hiking up rent prices in the area and filling the streets with flannel vests and wool sneakers, they’re now spreading into other regio…

nypost.com

So good to be under the rule of other residents... definitely not government and never over reach.

Might as well be in prison as be in an HOA.

 

[eevee-fan]

Interesting... could this lead to farmers to ditch farming (of which we have too much capacity as price is so low farmers make their money fro subsidy, not farming), to solar and wind farming (something that we need).

Tesla prepares to disrupt ethanol producers by entering renewable fuel credit market

Tesla has reportedly applied to enter the profitable renewable fuel credit market that is currently dominated by ethanol producers as...

electrek.co

 

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Plentiful renewable energy is opening up a new industrial frontier

Competitors are alarmed

www.economist.com

Eco-steel!

 

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[iPlug]

Plentiful renewable energy is opening up a new industrial frontier

Competitors are alarmed

www.economist.com

Eco-steel!

Paywalled, but I should get the weekly print edition this weekend to read the entire article.

 

[JRP3]

If you turn off Java Script you can read it.

 

[mspohr]

Learning to Live With Low Fertility Opinion | Learning to Live With Low Fertility

For what we’re looking at here is a world awash in savings with nowhere to go: Households are eager to lend money out, but businesses don’t see enough good investment opportunities. (Bitcoin doesn’t count.) Well, why not put the money to work for the public good? Why not borrow cheaply and use the funds to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, invest in the health and education of our children, and more? This would be good for our society, good for the future, and would also provide a cushion against future recessions. What about the burden of debt, you ask? Well, federal debt as a percentage of G.D.P. is twice what it was in 1990, but interest payments on the debt are only about half as high.

So, are the Biden administration’s infrastructure and family proposals the kind of things I have in mind? They’re a gratifying step in the right direction. But they aren’t nearly as ambitious as they’re often portrayed, and to my mind they’re too fiscally responsible — the administration is excessively concerned with paying for its plans. The fact is that, like it or not, we’re going to be living for a long time with very slow population growth. And we need to start thinking about economic policy with that reality in mind.

 

[eevee-fan]

Not GND, but WOW!

 

[JRP3]

What a surprise, pay more than starvation wages and suddenly you get plenty of job applicants.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1395088880316162060

 

[mspohr]

The New York Times: Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications. Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications

 

[JRP3]

The New York Times: Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications. Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications

Smaller populations could lead to higher wages, more equal societies, lower carbon emissions and a higher quality of life for the smaller numbers of children who are born.

Exactly what I've been saying for years.

 

[mspohr]

Workers matter and government works: eight lessons from the Covid pandemic

We have also learned that healthcare is a right, billionaires are often wrong –and conspiracy theories can often prove deadly

www.theguardian.com

 

[eevee-fan]

Wow. Chevron, the company that delayed hybrids and electric cars by buying out the patent on NNiMH battery, right?

 

[mspohr]

The climate crisis requires a new culture and politics, not just new tech | Peter Sutoris

Our society has come to believe that technology is the solution. Electricity from renewable sources, energy-efficient buildings, electric vehicles and hydrogen fuels are among the many innovations that we hope will play a decisive role in reducing emissions. Most of the mainstream climate-change models now assume some degree of “negative emissions” in the future, relying on large-scale carbon capture technology, despite the fact that it is far from ready to be implemented. And if all else fails, the story goes, we can geoengineer the Earth. But the problem with this narrative is that it focuses on the symptoms, not the causes of environmental decay. Even if the technologies on which we pin our hopes for the future deliver as expected and do not lead to much collateral damage – both of which are huge assumptions – they will not have fixed our mindsets. This is a crisis of culture and politics, not of science and technology. To believe that we can innovate and engineer ourselves out of this mess is to miss the key lesson of the Anthropocene – that dealing with planetary-scale processes calls for humility, not arrogance.Our society has come to believe that technology is the solution. Electricity from renewable sources, energy-efficient buildings, electric vehicles and hydrogen fuels are among the many innovations that we hope will play a decisive role in reducing emissions. Most of the mainstream climate-change models now assume some degree of “negative emissions” in the future, relying on large-scale carbon capture technology, despite the fact that it is far from ready to be implemented. And if all else fails, the story goes, we can geoengineer the Earth. But the problem with this narrative is that it focuses on the symptoms, not the causes of environmental decay. Even if the technologies on which we pin our hopes for the future deliver as expected and do not lead to much collateral damage – both of which are huge assumptions – they will not have fixed our mindsets. This is a crisis of culture and politics, not of science and technology. To believe that we can innovate and engineer ourselves out of this mess is to miss the key lesson of the Anthropocene – that dealing with planetary-scale processes calls for humility, not arrogance.
What does this look like in practice? Changing the collective mindset of a civilisation calls for a shift in values. It means educating our children about humility and connectedness, rather than vanity and individuality. It means changing our relationship with consumption, breaking the spell of advertising, manufactured needs and status. It means political organising, generating demand for a politics that sees beyond the nation state, and beyond the lifespan of the currently living generations – Wales has already started, with its Wellbeing of Future Generations Act.