Master of Climate Change Science & Policy. Climate Adviser at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Worked @ WRI on UN climate finance. Views my own
Feb 24, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
The replies in this thread, containing some of the world's leading energy modellers (all of whom seem to be white men, afaik) are interesting, for a few reasons: 🧵
#trustscience ? Is <- a useful phrase when top scientists from Princeton, Stanford, etc. can disagree vigorously about energy transition possibilities. How is one to develop an 'informed' opinion about energy transition necessities and possibilities when views are so divergent?
Jul 10, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
As a former wilderness therapy guide now working in the climate-verse,
I think it’s a huge problem that many climate scientists are quick to equate climate/eco-grief with doomism.
Ours is a society in which humans are largely ‘separate’ from nature, physically, emotionally, spiritually..,
This is by and large a function of capitalism/dualism, as @jasonhickel details in “Less is More” 1/n
