What's the grid in the middle of the photo made from?

Great title!

... estimate externalities related to the production of fossil fuels, which are also large.)

No governments, and no other inter-governmental organisations that estimate subsidies combine externalities with subsidies and call the total "subsidies". See my 🧷ed skeet for more.

That USD 7 trillion estimate of fossil fuel subsidies (for 2022, not 2023) comes from the IMF, which uses a highly non-standard definition of "subsidy". USD 5.7 trillion of that is actually the IMF's estimate of externalised costs related to the use of fossil fuels. (Note: the IMF does not ...

That is a non-standard definition of a "subsidy", one that is not used by any government or any other inter-governmental organization that produces estimates of subsidies to specific sectors. (Even other parts of the IMF don't conflate externalities with actual subsidies). See my 🧷ed skeet for more.

That's an old number. The IMF's latest estimate is $7 trillion in 2022. However, "only" $1.3 trln of that are actual subsidies. The rest, $5.7 trln are the IMF's estimates of external costs related to the use of fossil fuels. (Note: the IMF does not estimate externalities related to production.)

True, since RFK jr has only “arf” a brain.

I’ve recently seen bats in the center of Paris. 🦇🤗

A good font, too. I’ve been following Durán’s work for a few months so I think I know already a lot of the substance, which explains a lot of perplexing things going on today. But great to see he’s compiled it into a book.

It is. But I think even better — as in more chilling — would have been if he had used a German Gothic font. Something like this, or even older.

I was happy to hear the interviewees calling 🐂 💩 on the various claims about the supposed environmental superiority of single-use plastic bags compared with, e.g., canvas bags. Most of the life-cycle analyses used to justify these claims define the boundaries of their analyses WAY too narrowly.

His family history also argues for scrutinizing his behavior for telltale signs.

I’ve witnessed several people in various stages of dementia. I’m not a doctor, but what I see so far doesn’t comport with my experience. But, like many maladies, individual cases differ. I agree that more transparency on Trump’s medical exams would be nice but that we’re unlikely to get it.

I understand, and sympathize.

Thanks for all of this. I would guess that if a poll were taken “only” 30% of Americans (far too many, but a minority) — the MAGA hat wearers — would be open to the USA coercing Canada to merge with it (e.g., through economic pressure), and very few through military force.