by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jul 29, 2020 | All Post-Carbon
Your correspondent gets anywhere from 10-20 emails per day from public relations professionals wanting me to write about their client’s sustainability-related project. Most of these mails are about businesses that I wouldn’t consider investing in personally, that...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jul 24, 2020 | Big Picture, In Theory
Public attitudes regarding the scientific certainty of climate change have undergone an enormous shift since the mid-aughts, when former Vice President Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth first hit the theaters. The increasingly hard to ignore climate-related crises...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jul 16, 2020 | Big Picture, In Practice
One of the topics your correspondent keeps banging on about is that complex adaptive systems (like the world we live on) can sometimes experience jumps from one state to another when the they reach a tipping point. Unfortunately, most of the ecological tipping points...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jul 2, 2020 | Big Picture, In Theory
“All models are wrong but some are useful” — British statistician George E. P. Box In my climate change investing speaking engagements, doubters love to bring up what they think is the killer counter-argument: The mathematical models used by climate scientists and...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jun 30, 2020 | Big Picture
This spring, Pulitzer Prize winning author David Cay Johnston suggested that economic damage from Covid-19 would total from three to eight trillion dollars, depending how long the crisis lasted. Whatever the final tally, it is clear the damage to the global economy is...
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