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by smt1 7y ago
> Muslims are not similarly persecuted in Islamic nations. That's a gross generalization. See for example, the Ahmadis in Pakistan. Or more generally, the whole Sunni vs Shia split. India is supposed to be a secular country. Anyways
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by smt1 7y ago
Pretty much true. Also very sad considering the history of communal violence in south asia, which had trended towards getting better rather than worse in more recent decades.
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by smt1 7y ago
Very much true, and there is certainly a lot of historical baggage there. Also, in earlier times, administratively, Assam itself was much larger before many insurgencies caused the state to be split up, and before that, Bengal was much larg
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by smt1 7y ago
That's like one set of protests. The situation in that part of India has always been way more complicated than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency_in_Northeast_India
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by smt1 7y ago
It's not that simple; in that part of India (the northeast), there is all sorts of dynamics between different ethnic AND religious groups. The Assamese versus the Bengali vs many tribal groups who speak various Tibeto-Burmese languages
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The AI Index 2019 Report(hai.stanford.edu)
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by smt1 7y ago
Fourier was talking about the GHC effect in 1827: https://geosci.uchicago.edu/~rtp1/papers/Fourier1827Trans.pd...
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A neuroscientist's view in climate change(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
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Ten Ways to Use CO2(carbonbrief.org)
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On the Influence of CO2 in the Air Upon the Temperature of the Ground (1896) [pdf](rsc.org)
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The Speed of the Energy Transition: Gradual or Rapid Change? [pdf](www3.weforum.org)
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Martin Weitzman on the Economics of Climate Change(timharford.com)
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by smt1 7y ago
I don't disagree, but Exxon might have had the cachet, especially in the 1980s, to speed up decreasing the carbon intensity of the economy. The entire energy sector is now <= 5% the size of the entire S&P, down from 18%, so it&#
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by smt1 7y ago
This is kind of cherry picking evidence because it also doesn't show the rest of the world, especially the developing world, where the quickest path to GDP growth is, at least historically, to build a lot of coal plants. Arguably, if I
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by smt1 7y ago
I don't think they could be replaced that fast with nuclear. According to Bill Gates at a speech he gave @ ARPA-E, the limitation of mass nuclear right now is the number of heavy forges left in the world. I think you could scale up a m
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by smt1 7y ago
People have figured out carbon capture; people haven't figured out economical carbon capture at scale yet (except for reforestation, which only partially helps), and it feels like we're a long way off. If you want to incentivize t
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by smt1 7y ago
From the first IPCC reports in 1990, to today, the IPCC's prognostications about the future became more and more clairvoyant. Yes, it wasn't till the early 2000s that there was enough observed multiple sources of information about
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by smt1 7y ago
Even with "fully legal products", courts have taken a more expansive view of public nuisance laws recently. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-ene... Also the SCOTUS effectivel
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by smt1 7y ago
That type of case will most like be public nuisance suits under state tort laws, akin to for example, the recent Oklahoma opioid case against Johnson and Johnson, or say, lead paint lawsuits. These types of laws tend to be much more pervasi
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Yuval Noah Harari and Steven Pinker in Conversation(youtube.com)
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by smt1 8y ago
Interesting, Bill Gates recently had an interview where he talks about new reactor designs, including the traveling wave reactor (commercialized in a prototype phase by a company he founded - TerraPower): https://www.youtube.com&
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by smt1 8y ago
Some of that oil can at least be substituted with other sources of hydrocarbons, especially natural gas (just like coal->ng): https://www.bcg.com/en-au/publications/2017/energy-environme...
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Battery pioneer unveils surprising new breakthrough(axios.com)
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