We need to do a much better job at communicating that all good climate futures now involve an absolute fuck-ton of new buildings and major infrastructure investments.
A giant building boom is what successful climate action looks like on the ground.
A giant building boom is what successful climate action looks like on the ground.
https://twitter.com/TimMLatimer/status/1455919658855550976
I mean, I'm a lifetime fan of electrification and demand reduction, and the one billion machines frame is great.
But decarbonizing energy is only one part of the job we face; ruggedizing ourselves will be a bigger and just as pressing task as cutting CO2.
saulgriffith.medium.com/one-billion-ma…
But decarbonizing energy is only one part of the job we face; ruggedizing ourselves will be a bigger and just as pressing task as cutting CO2.
saulgriffith.medium.com/one-billion-ma…
Then in the U.S., there's rebuilding all the degraded systems around us, paying off technical debt and deferred maintenance, building out of the current housing shortage, preparing to accommodate millions of new refugees and welcoming 10s of millions of internal climate migrants.
There will be a LOT of refugees, and if we broaden that number to include climate migrants—those who factor climate & ecological decline into a complex set of decisions about where and when to move—we could be talking about more than a billion people.
insideclimatenews.org/news/02112021/…
insideclimatenews.org/news/02112021/…
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