by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Mar 11, 2019 | Big Picture
Most people think of the arctic as remote – a wasteland inhabited by polar bears (true) and penguins (untrue) – with little relevance to their daily lives. Most people are wrong. While the arctic may be distant for us geographically, what happens there has an enormous...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Mar 7, 2019 | All Post-Carbon, Industrial Heat
If you ask most people how we will get to a zero-carbon world, they’re likely to talk about electric cars and wind farms. However, climate cognoscenti know that the two largest contributors to climate change are industrial processes and agriculture, whose greenhouse...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Feb 28, 2019 | All AgTech, Big Picture
Author and podcaster Sam Harris points out that people’s political positions tend to cluster: if you meet a gun control advocate, you can safely bet they also favor legal access to abortion services, for instance. The problem is that people’s opinions about the...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Feb 22, 2019 | Big Picture
Ray Dalio, the Founder of the enormously influential hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, takes as the first of his Life Principles: Embrace Reality and Deal with It. 7 November 2018; Ray Dalio, Founder, Co-Chief Investment Officer & Co-Chairman,...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Feb 21, 2019 | All AgTech
Genetic modification of plants is humanity’s oldest and best trick. Eurasians had it easy when it came to cultivating wheat – its original form was pretty close to its present cultivated one. Mesoamericans, on the other hand, had to work for centuries to cultivate...
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