Thread by @ClaireBerlinski

Thanks, @NicSumner! Do you mean this one? claireberlinski.substack.com/p/on-the-futil… On the futility of global climate accords, but the quiet utility of Biden's other plans? I thought it was really good, too! And for those of you who don't know ...

https://twitter.com/NicSumner/status/1387997828773986306

This week is Energy Week at @cosmo_globalist. Have you ever wondered what the best way to provide energy for the whole planet really is? (If not, why not?) If so: This week and next, we're sorting this out: claireberlinski.substack.com/p/welcome-to-e…

We began with a rip-roaring case for solar, claireberlinski.substack.com/p/long-live-th…, by physicist @CJHandmer. Soon we'll be looking at ... contrary opinions. If you'd like to join the debate, you're warmly welcome, and if you don't know what @cosmo_globalist is,

Here's an explanation: claireberlinski.substack.com/about?utm_sour…
One thing, though: While most of the content is free, because we really think the world should know, we need you to subscribe if we're to be able to keep doing this.

We're all working, full time, for basically free right now. But we can't keep doing that indefinitely. We figure that by now, we've got a sufficient body of material posted to show you what we can do. Have a look: claireberlinski.substack.com

If you want more reporting like this--non-partisan and genuinely global in outlook; comprehensive, credible, and intellectually rigorous; and concerned with issues of genuine significance, rather than the local manufactured culture war outrage-du-jour--

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with the public manipulating the media, the media manipulating the public, and everyone becoming stupider and less able to solve serious problems because of it. (If you'd like to know more about how this works, I've explained it here: claireberlinski.substack.com/p/social-media…

And here: claireberlinski.substack.com/p/social-media…

There's much more to say about this, but in short, @cosmo_globalist has bet on the proposition that enough of you are sick enough of having your chains yanked this way--

and enough of you are aware that this chain-yanking cycle is making us *all* stupider, and less able to solve our problems--

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And if you've already subscribed, maybe you'd give a subscription to a friend?

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