by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jan 25, 2019 | All Post-Carbon, Big Picture
Thanks to a particularly odious little troll of a man and to a writer whose two major works the late, great Christopher Hitchens describes as “transcendently awful”, the word “tax” has a nearly obscene connotation. Nonetheless, it is clear to me that a carbon tax,...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jan 18, 2019 | All Grids
Nevil Chamberlain’s claim in September 1938 that his agreement with “Herr Hitler” had achieved “peace for our time” is one of the dramatic historical interludes that modern people look back upon with wonder. How could so few at the time see that – rather than buying...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jan 11, 2019 | All Post-Carbon
The Carbon Engineering Squamish plant. Squamish, British Columbia, Canada. Taken on April 20, 2016. Imagine vacuuming CO2 out of the thin air and transforming the carbon into jet fuel or gasoline. While it might seem like a sci-fi fantasy, it is actually the...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Dec 20, 2018 | Big Picture
Paul Romer, co-winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Economics, in discussion with attendees at the Romer Chat Event taking place during the 2014 Annual Summit of the International Transport Forum “Transport for a Changing World” on 22 May 2014 in Leipzig, Germany....
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Dec 13, 2018 | Big Picture
Icebergs float in a fjord after calving off from glaciers on the Greenland ice sheet in southeastern Greenland. President Donald Trump seems to be describing another planet’s climate because the Earth he described doesn’t quite match what data shows and...
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