by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Mar 24, 2020 | Big Picture
In the midst of COVID-19-related travel restrictions and market turbulence, I realized there are some important lessons we can extrapolate from the present pandemic to the threat of climate change. Humans don’t handle slow-moving threats well Government action makes a...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Mar 6, 2020 | All Post-Carbon, Big Picture
President Trump’s State of the Union speech committing U.S. support to the Trillion Tree Campaign drew a lot of attention to topic of forestry- and land use-related carbon sequestration schemes. Your correspondent would like to think the president was inspired to...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jan 9, 2020 | Big Picture
The string of bad climate news detailed in a previous article reinforced my belief that we must use the power of capitalism to prepare civilization for climate adaptation. Knowing how hard I and other VCs work to try to raise capital and dole out bits of the...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Dec 30, 2019 | All Post-Carbon, Big Picture, DAC, Industrial Heat
Congratulations. You just lived through the warmest decade in the last several hundred years and likely the warmest since the beginning of human civilization. This year in particular has been one of records: In January and February, Australia experienced...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Dec 23, 2019 | Big Picture
The past few weeks have supplied a consistent string of negative news on the climate change front. NOAA released its annual Arctic Report Card, warning that the globe has likely reached an important “tipping point” – namely, that melting permafrost now makes the...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Nov 29, 2019 | All AgTech, All Grids, All Post-Carbon, Big Picture, DAC, Industrial Heat, Regenerative Agriculture
Most of the companies about which I write in this column are new ventures commercializing cutting-edge technology to reduce or eliminate carbon emissions – companies like GlassPoint Solar, Carbon Engineering, and PrairieFoods. As a society, we desperately need these...
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