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Economists who don't pay attention to details of production are not economists. Production of cars, oil and meat was disrupted because they are "just-in-time" and bottlenecks in production or transport (like shipping/ports/trucks) hurt.
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2/ Started the thread here 2 years ago, as it became clear that coronavirus would shock the world economy. The shock of E Asia shutting down was immediate to markets & commodities and our "just-in-time" fossil-fueled systems #CoronavirusImposesCarbonTax
3/ The idea of #CoronavirusImposesCarbonTax thread was to understand structure by exploring how a shock propagates across the world economy. Economists find out in 2021 that bottlenecks caused inflation in sectors of OIL, CARS and MEAT.
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"Achieving carbon neutrality requires eliminating most fossil fuel use in power generation, heating, industry & transport...IF it is made the guiding vision for invstmt, innovation & policymaking in China"-@laurimyllyvirta

Litmus test: Canceling new Coal energyandcleanair.org/china-2060-car…
Climate is Natl Security policy is Industrial policy is Econ policy #GeopoliticsOfGHGs

Its a Market mover, a Oil & Gas importer vulnerable to blockades, an "Electrostate", a Green Power Politics move, a ecologically fragile state all rolled into one economist.com/briefing/2020/…
"Chinese companies have invested in mines from DRC to Chile..securing access to minerals needed for solar panels,electric vehicles...
Unable to be a Petrostate, it is becoming an Electrostate, investing strategically all along the chain from mine to meter" economist.com/briefing/2020/… Image
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Green city experiments are happening worldwide. 20thC was all about building cities around cars. Coronavirus allows for emergency measures that permanently revitalize neighborhoods & public spaces. bit.ly/pandemicurbani…
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If you added up all the space Manhattan gives to cars — roadway, street parking, garages — you’d have an area nearly 4 times as large as Central Park.

What if all that space was given to people? What then? Clean air? Safe streets? Healthy bodies? @fmanjoo nytimes.com/2020/07/09/opi…
In Paris,Anne Hidalgo used lockdown time to create more cycling lanes. Residents can get up to 500 euros to buy an electric bike & a €50 reimbursement to repair an old bike. Unsurprisingly, a cycling boom in a car-mad city. 3/ #CoronavirusImposesCarbonTax
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Broke: Homo sapiens faffs about trying to put a put a price on Carbon while consuming 100 million barrels of oil per day.

Woke: Coronavirus takes matter into its tiny DNA hands & unilaterally imposes Global Carbon Tax. Oil Falls 3mbd. Most since Crash bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
#CoronavirusImposesCarbonTax morbid short-term natural experiment that illustrates decarbonization politics. Shock to MNCs who make or sell in China, but also 🌏 as 🇨🇳is largest importer of Oil (middle east), Iron (australia), Copper (chile), Soy (brazil)
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Why are German Autos, Steel & Chemicals companies worrying about Coronovirus? Chinese demand has fueled German export sales for 20+yrs. It is a bigger trading partner for Germany than any country in Europe. #CoronavirusImposesCarbonTax atlas.media.mit.edu/en/visualize/t…
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