- Listen to Ralph Nader (90 years old!) talk sense on capitalism.
- Read: Climate chaos will cost home owners at least $25 TRILLION in the near future. Most of them want governments taxpayers to bail them out, but there’s only so much money to go around!
- Read: AIs are going to make English even more dominant as the world’s lingua franca.
- Read: Before Facebook, there was BlackPlanet — and it’s coming back!
- Panic? Tipping points: About 11,500 years ago, during the Younger Dryas era, temperatures in Greenland leapt 10 degrees Celsius in a decade, with the rest of the world seeing a matching jump to a new state in a matter of decades, not centuries. Sea levels rose rapidly by tens of meters, driven by Greenland ice melt and other ice loss in the Arctic and Antarctic.
- Listen to this fascinating discussion of the impact of AI on the electrical grid, where operators are “surprised”. Note that they would NOT have been if, say, a carbon tax was in place, as that would have given a CLEAR indication of the need to shift from fossil to renewable energy as well as increase grid capacity to serve new electrical demand, which has shifted from +2% in ten years to +200%!
- Read: Here are some reasons to tax the income and wealth of the rich, but they do not get too deep into tax evasion/avoidance, which calls for property taxes!
- Read: Political pundits, who tend to lean left and rich, don’t understand the impact of inflation on their poorer neighbors.
- Read: Thames Water (London) may go bankrupt if it cannot get investors to contribute equity. The regulator will not let it raise prices by 40% to repair its aging network, mostly for fear (justified) that bankers will take the money and forget the repairs. Fun times!
- Read: Democracy dies behind paywalls — which is why I use a “paywall-circumvention-service” to share this article, and many others, with you!
David:
A nice collection of Reads . . .
Bill