tripped algorithm searching meeting attendees. is fah-jah-dah-mah-mah-dah still fahk yer mom, or more an interwar insult? ciao the italiano aloha. my hemisphere streets smell of marijuana, here of cologne. these non-peninsulars one & all knife and fork pizza dork, hands for more than talking yk
read how to avoid a climate disaster: the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need by bill gates
what's remarkable to me is not how much emissions went down because of the pandemic, but how little
during the last ice age, the average temperature was just 6 degrees celsius lower than it is today. during the age of the dinosaurs, when the average temperature was perhaps 4 degrees celsius higher than today, there were crocodiles living above the arctic circle
i'm a big fan of the late writer david foster wallace. (i'm preparing for his mammoth novel infinite jest by slowly making my way through everything else he ever wrote)
oil is cheaper than a soft drink..here's the math: a barrel of oil contains 42 gallons; the average price in the second half of 2020 was around $42 per barrel, so that comes to about $1 per gallon. meanwhile, costco sells 8 liters of soda for $6, a price that amounts to $2.85 a gallon
prices don't reflect the damage they cause
the first model t that rolled off henry ford's production line in 1908 got no better than 21 miles to the gallon. as i write this, the top hybrid on the market gets 58 miles to the gallon
the definition of a watt already includes "per second" .. tip: whenever you hear "kilowatt," think "house." "gigawatt," think "city." a hundred or more gigawatts, think "big country"
nighttime intermittency isn't the hardest problem to deal with. the seasonal variation between summer and winter is an even bigger hurdle
making steel and cement emits carbon dioxide - not just from burning fossil fuels, but as a result of the chemical reactions that are essential to their creation
cattle in south america emit up to five times more greenhouse gases than ones in north america do, and african cattle emit even more. if a cow is being raised in north america or europe, it's more likely to be an improved breed that converts feed into milk and meat more efficiently. it will also get better veterinary care and higher-quality feed, which means it'll produce less methane
it's been estimated that if we couldn't make synthetic fertilizer, the world's population would be 40 to 50 percent smaller than it is
there's more carbon in soil than in the atmosphere and all plant life combined
we've got a lot of inventing to do
those of us who have done the most to cause this problem should help the rest of the world survive it. we owe them that much
some critics attack geoengineering as a massive experiment on the planet, though as the proponents of geoengineering point out, we're already running a massive experiment on the planet by emitting huge amounts of greenhouse gases
governments can nudge producers and consumers
in the longer term, as we get closer to net-zero emissions, the carbon price could be set at the cost of direct air capture, and the revenues could be used to pay for pulling carbon out of the air
i hope you'll spend more time and energy supporting whatever you're in favor of than opposing whatever you're against
temperatures will not stop rising in texas unless emissions stop rising in india
i'd like to thank the team at knopf. bob gottlieb's early support for this book helped make it happen
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