Need also to look at the phrase 'cost to human flourishing' again; from here on, there will be a lot of dread in our lives, and even to an economist, 'dread' is not an ingredient of 'flourishing.' nature.com/articles/d4158…
Unwinding the dread won't be easy because neither science nor politics can stop the damage we've already done. Facing reality together may be the path back to real flourishing. Thus I retweet @ukfires and this example: grist.org/international/…
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Gripping 6000 words on the fate of California from @lizweil. The more we normalize how rapid our transition is the better. As @steffen has been explaining for a long time. nytimes.com/2022/01/03/mag… Some extra thoughts...
@lizweil@steffen Because the legacy Mediterranean climate that indigenous people once safely managed is also disappearing, an equilibrium produced by better fire policy and careful rebuilding may not last for long. A parallel on the East Coast is coastlines.
In the meantime, the 'new norm' in high demand places is easily maladaptive...
NYC is unlikely to experience a dry heatwave.
When I want to bore myself to sleep in the middle of the day I like to open up a report sponsored by a couple of billionaires six years ago. riskybusiness.org/site/assets/up…