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Bill Gates: If you read one thing about climate change, make it this
- henryaj 7y agoLink to the article: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/7/11/20688611/climate-change-research-development-innovation https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/7/11/2068861...
- boshomi 7y agoat the picture: waste of fertile land for engery production is a worng way to save the climate...
- randyrand 7y agowhat a bad title. "one thing this week ".
- paulddraper 7y ago> Government support for energy R&D is one of the best opportunities to fight climate change. To give an idea of the current spend: In 2016, the U.S. spent $11 billion on renewable energy subsidies and $3 billion on energy efficiency. [1] [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/uhenergy/2018/03/23/renewable-energy-subsidies-yes-or-no/#74fef40f6e23 https://www.forbes.com/sites/uhenergy/2018/03/23/renewable-e...
- reddickulous 7y agoAre government subsidies actually a good way to promote R&D? The U.S. has a couple notable failures there (ethanol/corn, and Solyndra). And Germany has put billions and billions of Euros into their aggressive renewable energy push with very little to show for it. https://m.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-failure-on-the-road-to-a-renewable-future-a-1266586.html https://m.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-failure-on...
- xmichael999 7y agoI've never really spent any time with Twitter, but wow what a frustrating platform. The lead comments range from total insanity to a guy asking for a job, mixed with a few sorta logical comments....
- acqq 7y agoThe one thing is how unbelievably hard would be to reach 2 deg target: http://folk.uio.no/roberan/t/global_mitigation_curves.shtml http://folk.uio.no/roberan/t/global_mitigation_curves.shtml The problem is: we should not despair but act and politicians don't like to ask the voters to sacrifice for a goal of making the future less worse.
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