strategy
6017
Also:
But he’s not even unique on twitter - variants of this take are all over Right-Wing twittersphere. Like this gem:
That people abuse an argument doesn’t mean the argument is always wrong.
Rock8man
6019
Greta Thunberg posted something on February 2nd that I didn’t see until my brother posted it today. I’m very impressed with her.
Tman
6020
On the topic of hate, climate change activists are killed on a daily basis around the world. I really didn’t understand the scope of this. Here is a small article that will introduce you to this travesty:
" Four people are killed every week over climate and land disputes at the hands of state forces and hired assassins who defend the interests of big corporations, large landowners, and the government. According to the 2019 Global Witness Report, which tracks such harassment, enforced disappearances and murders of activists across the world, 164 environmental activists were murdered in 2018. Although this is a drop from the previous year’s count of 207 deaths, the report details how violence and coercion has spiked as coalitions of private security forces, contract killers, and state forces have looked to systematically silence those who are on the frontlines of the climate crisis and dare to take on bourgeois governments and capitalists."
Matt_W
6021
Orange County has automatic toll roads where a camera takes a picture of your plate, and you have a few days to log into a website and pay.
Seems like good news. A big project like this can give us a lot of data about how wind might work at scale in other places, too.
Tman
6023
There is some evidence that these offshore windfarms create reefs that ocean wildlife are thriving at.
“Yeah, sure, they’re okay. But they spoil the view from my infinity pool …”
Artificial is bad! Only all-natural, organic, free-range reefs!
It’s going to happen. There’s a big debate going on in FinReg right now about whether green investments should get preferential prudential treatment. At the moment the regulators are
holding the line on saying that it can’t be justified unless there’s evidence that such investments are actually safer, while also saying that climate change poses financial stability risks. But all it will take is for legislators to offer lower capital requirements, as they often do for politically favoured sections of the economy, and boom, the market will move en masse.
MikeJ
6030
Is there an acknowledgement that investment in carbon-intensive energy sources have huge risk due to potential regulatory action?
Definitely, at least outside the US. See eg this inter-central bank report, this joint statement from UK regulators or this Bank of England policy document
But for the most part it’s macro or institution-level and about governance, rather than directly penalising (or favouring) specific assets. The EU is slowly moving toward that sort of framework, but at this stage it’s still about developing a framework for defining and categorising “green” or “sustainable” investment, rather than building in preferential treatment.
Edit: Forgot another example the EBA’s new guidelines on loan origination and monitoring (still under constulation):
orald
6032
Tim_N
6034
I think it was in this thread that someone posted a joke picture of “tree bombs” that might get the right-wing into environmental conservation.
Well, it’s here!
To throw another dart at the pro-nuclear crowd here (of which I’m a part-time member).
The Hinkley Point C nuclear plant under construction in England just had a price increase due to 'ground conditions" and other reasons. The increase, not the cost, is more than it would cost to generate the same amount of power using wind.
Of course, they can’t guarantee there won’t be more cost increases in the future.
https://www.ft.com/content/92102452-df62-11e9-9743-db5a370481bc
Edit: here in an alternate link with a comment on wind energy prices:
