Pluralistic: Electrons, not molecules (06 Mar 2024)

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Electrons, not molecules: Renewables don't generate above-average returns for Exxon's shareholders.
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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: Insurance companies are making climate risk worse (28 Nov 2023)

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Insurance companies are making climate risk worse: How to break the climate insurance doom-loop.
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Pluralistic: The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate "solutions" (31 Oct 2023)

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The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate "solutions": "All of the above" is a highly selective proposition.
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Pluralistic: Serializing the opening of "The Lost Cause" (06 Oct 2023)

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Serializing the opening of "The Lost Cause": My novel of climate hope, out on November 14.
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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: Saturday linkdump, part the sixth (09 Sept 2023)

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Saturday linkdump, part the sixth: The new digital disorder.
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Pluralistic: SoCal Gas spent millions on astroturf ops to fight climate rules (19 August 2023)

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SoCal Gas spent millions on astroturf ops to fight climate rules: And then fraudulently billed it all to their customers.
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Pluralistic: Conservatives are fringe outliers – and leftists could learn from them (16 June 2023)

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Conservatives are fringe outliers – and leftists could learn from them: Unhinged QGOP freaks may be completely unhinged, but they know how to use power.
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Pluralistic: Ian McDonald's "Hopeland" (30 May 2023)

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Ian McDonald's "Hopeland": A novel so eerily good it almost made me angry.
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