Felix Creutzig
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Felix Creutzig
@efesce.bsky.social
Bennett Chair University of Sussex and PIK Potsdam.

Climate change mitigation, especially cities, transport, and role of AI. Believes in human cooperation, urban planning, economics, and technologies. Make climate policy as if children matter.
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IN THE USA…

Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?

Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing…
www.cbsnews.com/news/100000-...
100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?
Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
www.cbsnews.com
September 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Reposted by Felix Creutzig
Today our transmission grid capacity is only used about 55% of the time. Our distribution grid, less than 30% of the time. But for 50-100 hours a year everything could be used close to 100% of their capacity — so we overinvest in those hours.
@tnorris.bsky.social
September 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Reposted by Felix Creutzig
Reposted by Felix Creutzig
IPCC WGIII Chapter 5 remains one of the most comprehensive resources on the social science of climate change mitigation to date. I cannot recommend it enough! (6/6)

Read it here: www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...

@efesce.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social @elkeweber.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM