Pluralistic: Solar is a market for (financial) lemons (27 Jan 2024)

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Solar is a market for (financial) lemons: Our Slow AIs have an alignment problem.
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Pluralistic: Greenwashing set Canada on fire (16 Sept 2023)

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Greenwashing set Canada on fire: A generation of idealistic Canadian kids broke their backs every summer "planting thousands of blowtorches a day."
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Pluralistic: 18 Mar 2022

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The market for carbon credit lemons: Bad money drives out good.
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Pluralistic: 11 Mar 2022

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The SEC must not legitimize fake "carbon offsets": Net zero is not zero.
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Pluralistic: 26 Jul 2021

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Charter schools are money laundries: "The hidden world of charter schools operated for financial gain."
Disney parks and aggregate demand management: My ongoing series on Medium, for an age of supply shocks.
Oregon's carbon offsets go up in smoke: The Bootleg Fire is more evidence that markets can't solve the climate emergency.
Surge pricing violates antitrust law: Even the weaksauce version pushed by the econ establishment.
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Pluralistic: 12 Dec 2020

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Youtube, fair use, competition, and the death of the artist: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Carbon offsets are bullshit: And the "Nature" "Conservancy" is neither.
Outgoing Facebookers blast the company: "Embarrassing to work here."
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