Beff @BasedBeffJezos in his podcast with @lexfridman

"High variance of ideas needed... need to find optima for civilizational progress" etc.

*completely* agree.

Also Beff: tries to vigorously destroy idea opposite his own.

Here a few, hopefully, mediating ideas.🧵

https://twitter.com/BasedBeffJezos/status/1740312875087130719

"Rationalists" and expansionists, like Beff, like to think about win-win instead of zero-sum. Then why be so hard zero-sum with competing ideas?

Why not try finding some common ground?

New paper alert.
Happy to have contributed a little to this paper published yesterday in the Lancet Planetary Health.
The study was led by Joel-Millward Hopkins.
thelancet.com/journals/lanpl… What we have shown in this paper is that drastically reduced global inequality is a necessary condition for a climate-safe future with equitable well-being.

I just passed my PhD viva (no corrections).

My thesis being:

"Inequality, (re)distribution and luxury-taxation of international household energy and carbon footprints"

The last four years were intensive but rewarding.

Short 🧵👇 Massive thanks to all my supervisors @JKSteinberger @dr_anneowen @diana_nbd and Joel Millward-Hopkins.

Their advice and guidance was critical.

**LONG THREAD ** There are important confusions about the necessity of economic growth and the potential of redistribution for global equality circulating on twitter. @MaxCRoser (whose work I btw for the most part highly appreciate, OWID is great etc.) claims that economic growth is great because *GDP per capita* correlates with health indicators such as life expectancy and low child mortality. So far so good. On the other hand, he also claims redistribution would never suffice to lift everyone to a decent standard of living because