Long read - My journey into the troubling behavioral and social science explaining why humans "don't look up" when it comes to massive, slow-moving, divisive risks
So great to read/see the chronology of your investigation of global warming over the years. It's a big read, and, I have to say, I scanned some of it (for lack of time not interest)-- still, wonderful, and with bits to learn from for the future. Thanks!
Wonderful biography of a diverse and rewarding life so far. Impressive. I would guess that many in their later years reflect on the path they have taken, challenges faced, insights gained, attitudes formed. But few have the ability, or perhaps inclination, to record it all. Thanks for the reflections and articulate self analysis, with a substantive theme.
This was some of your best reporting and writing ever! I have been reading you since the NYT days, also majored in biology (and literature-dual major), have been a journalist, teacher, technical writer, song writer, and poet. Sound familiar? Like you, I am agnostic about a lot of things, and ambivalent about a lot of others in so many ways that you report to be. Our "from embracing nature to defending it" has evolved differently, but made both of us suspect for not toeing the true partisan line. Keep up the nature loving nuance and great writing, Andy!
This is misleading. One -- and only one -- political party laid the groundwork, invested a lot of public $$ and research and subsidy towards a current situation of profitable renewables. Texas, left to it's own politics and devices, would just be drilling us all into a deeper fossil hole. A better phrasing is that blue states carry the VC and after that, ONLY after someone else ate the risk, TX et.al are in.
So great to read/see the chronology of your investigation of global warming over the years. It's a big read, and, I have to say, I scanned some of it (for lack of time not interest)-- still, wonderful, and with bits to learn from for the future. Thanks!
Wonderful biography of a diverse and rewarding life so far. Impressive. I would guess that many in their later years reflect on the path they have taken, challenges faced, insights gained, attitudes formed. But few have the ability, or perhaps inclination, to record it all. Thanks for the reflections and articulate self analysis, with a substantive theme.
Andy,
This was some of your best reporting and writing ever! I have been reading you since the NYT days, also majored in biology (and literature-dual major), have been a journalist, teacher, technical writer, song writer, and poet. Sound familiar? Like you, I am agnostic about a lot of things, and ambivalent about a lot of others in so many ways that you report to be. Our "from embracing nature to defending it" has evolved differently, but made both of us suspect for not toeing the true partisan line. Keep up the nature loving nuance and great writing, Andy!
This is misleading. One -- and only one -- political party laid the groundwork, invested a lot of public $$ and research and subsidy towards a current situation of profitable renewables. Texas, left to it's own politics and devices, would just be drilling us all into a deeper fossil hole. A better phrasing is that blue states carry the VC and after that, ONLY after someone else ate the risk, TX et.al are in.
Worth noting that the same federal energy R&D push also underpinned the hydrofracturing revolution in Texas and beyond as well.