Professor, Environmental Studies🌎 San José State University @CalState.Bsky.social Fellow, Payne Institute @ Colorado School of Mines, Climate & Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social, Switzer Network. www.dustinmulvaney.com 📍Popeloutchom, Monterey Bay 🌅🦦
Oh yeah, what I meant is the material side.. we have an economy that runs on fossil fuels and is made plastics. We can replace the fossil fuel part… pretty far away from replacing more essential plastics (like medical devices, binders in batteries, etc.)
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Oh yeah, what I meant is the material side.. we have an economy that runs on fossil fuels and is made plastics. We can replace the fossil fuel part… pretty far away from replacing more essential plastics (like medical devices, binders in batteries, etc.)
LBNL.. plastics are the big growth area for fossil fuel industries, with only meager alternatives on the horizon. energyanalysis.lbl.gov/publications...
LBNL.. plastics are the big growth area for fossil fuel industries, with only meager alternatives on the horizon. energyanalysis.lbl.gov/publications...
Really bugs me that "abundance" is creating a heuristic whereby a policy is presumed good if it makes it easier to build something without any consideration of harms. With "harms" ridiculed as "everything bagel" liberalism that must be sacrificed to the development Gods.
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Really bugs me that "abundance" is creating a heuristic whereby a policy is presumed good if it makes it easier to build something without any consideration of harms. With "harms" ridiculed as "everything bagel" liberalism that must be sacrificed to the development Gods.