When I ask my European friends to describe us — Americans, Brits, who I’ll call Anglo-Americans in this essay — they shake their heads gently. And over and over, three themes emerge. They say we’re a little thoughtless. They say we’re selfish and arrogant. And they say that we’re cruel and brutal. I can’t help […]
From: Till Kellerhoff
Dear all, Many of you will have seen this already, but I am pleased to share with you the final version of an open letter on the Green New Deal to the president of the EU commission von der Leyen, which was sent yesterday. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! If you are able to […]
Chaos Scientist Finds Hidden Financial Risks That Regulators Miss
Oxford Professor Doyne Farmer is working with central banks to improve stress testing. Economics is harder than physics, Farmer says. People don’t obey rules as reliably as atoms do. In his stress-test model of the European financial system, for instance, he had to make assumptions about what assets bankers might dump after their firms suffered […]
The Climate Change Paper So Depressing Its Sending People to Therapy
The Climate Change Paper So Depressing Its Sending People to Therapy On average, three people read an academic paper. At least 100,000 have read this – and a lot of them haven’t taken it very well. By Zing Tsjeng Feb 27 2019, 11:49am https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/vbwpdb/the-climate-change-paper-so-depressing-its-sending-people-to-therapy What if I told you there was a paper on climate change that was […]
Tree planting ‘has mind-blowing potential’ to tackle climate crisis
Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the biggest and cheapest way to tackle the climate crisis, according to scientists, who have made the first calculation of how many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas. As trees grow, they absorb and store the carbon dioxide […]