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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.
"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…
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/…
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/…
Unable to be a Petrostate, it is becoming an Electrostate, investing strategically all along the chain from mine to meter" economist.com/briefing/2020/…
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…
#CoronavirusImposesCarbonTax
#CoronavirusImposesCarbonTax
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…
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/…
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)
nytimes.com/2020/02/03/bus…
nytimes.com/2020/02/03/bus…
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…
