Notes

Our national terror alert level was recently reduced from 4/5 to 3/5.

The US is in a permanent “heightened level of vigilance.”

Supposedly we can stop climate change for $600 billion.

Given social realities and our thirst for growth, I think we should be aiming higher, for full renewable: $73 trillion. https://e360.yale.edu/digest/the-global-price-tag-for-100-percent-renewable-energy-73-trillion

I’m not going to be clutching my pearls over the demise of monoculture. Somehow, I survived into adulthood without watching Seinfeld, Friends, The Office, etc. and if I was eager for shallow shared experiences I’d watch sports.

I normally roll my eyes at agency trend reports, often technophilic navel gazing, but @fjord’s 2020 edition feels both meaningful and (mostly) realistic.

This good but too long takedown of how we’re accounting for climate change is worth it for the WWII analogy: https://via.hypothes.is/https://theweek.com/articles/850637/deadly-hidden-risks-within-most-prominent-economic-model-climate-change#annotations:BzPUXCZVEeqSNOM8u-HBxA

R.I.P. Chuck Peddle