So, for a long time I’ve kept track of interesting stuff I should write about.
And not written about most of it.
So the plan is a series of “Further Reading” posts in which I give brief commentary and links to stuff I think is, well, worth reading. (Er, and also some tweets and graphics and maybe songs or podcasts and so on.)
Inaugural edition, ahoy!
Let’s start with a nice graphic showing up the creek we are on climate change with respect to changing what energy we use. Could write a post on that but I may have already a few times this year. *cough*
I’m preparing some slides for an upcoming talk (on climate policy, yowza!).
The attached is an effort to show in a readily understandable way the mind-bending scale of the energy challenge associated with deep decarbonization.
What do you think? pic.twitter.com/EGbykLyZKj— Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) January 29, 2018
Amazon is a shit place to work and Jeff Bezos is not a nice person to his employees, edition “carry bottles to pee in because you have no time to do so if you work at Amazon.”
Could be I spend a bit too much time on twitter, but this little graphic on whether Brits want to rejoin the EU after leaving is worth viewing.
No, the U.K. isn’t going to rejoin Europe. A new poll shows there’s not much appetite for the idea https://t.co/ttzvd5KkS4 pic.twitter.com/S2PGQceITx
— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) April 28, 2018
The world bank is the less sucky of the IMF and World Bank pair. I say this to provide context to the fact the World Bank is recommending countries scrap minimum wage laws.
And a bit old, but the Gulf Stream system is slowing down much faster than projected due to climate change. That’s the thing that keeps Europe warmer than it should be, and also, if it slows down too much, East coast North American storms will be much worse. Fun.
What have you been reading, listening to, etc… that you think is worth people’s attention?
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nihil obstet
I’m torn between all the things I haven’t read or watched and all the things I have read and watched, but which I would almost certainly see more deeply or differently now. I used to re-read Our Mutual Friend virtually every year, but it’s been a long time now. It’s as good a portrayal as I know of the mental states that capitalism induces.
I’m reading Walkaway by Cory Doctorow now, a good thought experiment in creating a utopian society.
I’m trying to decide whether to break down and watch The Handmaid’s Tale. I find most depictions of oppressive, prison-like conditions more sadistic than illuminating.
marku52
Well, you certainly made my day with that parade of hopeful data.
Thanks anyway for what you do. Keeping it real!
Chiron
I honestly think that by 2030 most countries will have scrapped/terminated any labour, minimum wage, unions, state enterprises,.. Some economist said that the 2008 should have being the end of Neoliberalism but what happened is that Neoliberals everywhere are double downing on their views with the full support of the elite.
Hugh
We can not deal with fossil fuel elimination without also dealing with overpopulation. I think fossil fuel reduction will largely be accomplished by population reduction mostly after 2050 through war, famine, and disease. It doesn’t have to be this way but the window in which to act is almost closed and there is virtually no serious discussion of any of this in our public spaces. And no, I do not see the Paris accords as serious.