energy 14
- Supplying drinking and household water through desalination is quite cheap and uses far less energy than the author had guessed.
- Britain has a systemic problem building large infrastructure projects, including reservoirs
Hannah Ritchie
Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes Sustainability by Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of her, and revises in public when they say something she did not expect.
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infrastructure 6
- Reserving desalination plants for emergency situations does not seem to work well.
- Reservoirs are not automatically cheaper than desalination plants.
sustainability 5
- Humans have never been sustainable: earlier generations had a lower environmental impact and lives that were much worse.
- Cheap clean energy has broken the old trade-off between raising living standards and cutting environmental harm.
climate change 4
- People consistently underestimate how many of their compatriots believe in climate change and want action on it.
- Cheap clean energy has broken the old trade-off between raising living standards and cutting environmental harm.
batteries 3
- Cheap clean energy has broken the old trade-off between raising living standards and cutting environmental harm.
- Chinese solar panels and batteries are cheap because of automation and a honed supply chain, not because of cheap labour.
China 3
- A country cannot fund its own industrial strategy and call the same policy cheating when China does it.
- Forced labour in Chinese clean-energy supply chains is real, and it is not why the goods are cheap.
solar 3
- Chinese solar panels and batteries are cheap because of automation and a honed supply chain, not because of cheap labour.
- We worry about the land solar needs while ignoring how wastefully the world already uses its farmland.
happiness 2
- The pattern of young people being much happier than older people is concentrated in post-communist countries
- Young people tend to be happier than older generations, but not in the Anglosphere