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She said: "I think we should be using apostrophes.

"If you start losing things like that then everything goes downhill doesn't it?"

Lol. Brexit is the thing she should be worried about. Not apostrophes on street signs.

What does this have to do with the thread you're responding to (besides both comments being shit takes)?

Also, for the "average shopper" in the West (as in, someone who is not actually poor), it is untrue. Buying Patagonia is simply a matter of priorities. E.g. a Patagonia vest costs between 119 and 199 USD. At that price, it's much less expensive than the most expensive thing in that "average shopper's" household.

But to a lot of people that vest will be less important than, say, a dishwasher or a car. Or maybe they actually want a vest but they prioritize buying 5 super-cheap vests to have more choice.

Nb: There are luxury items that those people literally can't afford. And there are also people below the poverty line who indeed never have 120 USD on hand at once. Neither is relevant here.

[Edit: Quite honestly, I would be interested in why I get downvotes on the observation that, above a certain wealth threshold, which items people spend money on depends on their priorities.]

The economics unfortunately currently still work against these types of plants in many cases. Let's hope the IRA provides enough backing that this projected plant can actually go into production.

Grist is a US website. Though admittedly they use a .org domain and thankfully don't sprinkle their site with star-spangled banners.

Thank you for posting this stringent explanation of the madness going on here.

Nobody trusts those efforts. They exist because politicians felt they had to do something and lobbyists told them this was something and so it was done.

(Electrifying transport on land will go a long way towards reducing oil use though.)

Seems like there's some conflicting information in the article with the World Bank guy at the end contradicting the Texas regulator from earlier concerning the impact of enclosed flares.

Pretty good conversation! And you're right, his mentioning that 40% of ships simply transport fossil fuels was kind of a revelation.

I also found the bit about financing in the developing world interesting.

One aspect where he came really short though was "agriculture? Oh yeah, I haven't looked into that". Then going on about ruminants. Actually, it's the same thing as with primary energy — much like the demand is for lighting rather than coal, there is demand for healthy food rather than for animal parts.

The article is about New York City's pizza, not New York City Pizza. If your "local Italian restaurant" is in NYC, they will need to switch to electric too.

Their money is a big part of their power. We need some wedge in there to be able to take more and more of their power away eventually. What's still happening right now is that they extract money from society and use a small amount of that to pay dividends to people with political/judicial power.

In that sense: Taxing exploration and extraction can be a gateway for more, including criminal justice. But we do need to get over that initial hump.

It looks so much like an orange Playdate. It's designed by Teenage Engineering too.

At some point, we'll either need to price in the externalities or find a different tool than price.