Why is Net Zero not more popular? Well, lots of reasons but structuring our climate policy so that emissions reduction costs way more than it should might have something to do with it?

We still have net subsidies for about 20% of UK GHG emissions, while another 30% are unpriced. Every article about nonsense like sustainable aviation fuels should start and end with this graph www.oecd.org/tax/tax-poli...

Half right is a good start. Pleased to see the Greens coming out in favour of abolishing income tax and NIC at least.

Microsoft's new Outlook certainly disproves the old adage "you can't stop progress" eh?
That's the Whig theory of email clients out the window.

Can't believe these people are driving me to memes.

And here's 2024's for totally unscientific comparisons. Rivers/water pollution holding steady.

What are my Environmental Policy class interested in? Here's my annual word cloud of their keywords

Rereading Heilbroner's chapter on Marx, and the last sentence in this passage of American exceptionalism feels like it's getting an empirical test. (America is surely only exceptional in being unusually rich for a developing country 😉)

Of course, Madagascar has seen demonstrations, and seemingly popular coups before. As the long run trend shows, the record of success is mixed. Ofc, GDP per capita aint everything, but en gros, the story stands data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY...

I'm currently in Tanzania during a general election. It's no democratic paradise & grumbles abound. But the comparison with Madagascar is stark👇 . A political class which presides over stagnation in a "developing country" is going to reap a whirlwind eventually ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-...

This seems to support the OP's point?

Boarding the Morogoro-bound SGR train in Dar, on my way to join colleagues at Sokoine Uni for fieldwork as part of our research and KT project on the viability of Carbon Credits as an income stream for Tanzanian Village Forests/PFM (funded by Defra/GCBC).

Perhaps, tho I feel like UK labour would be happy to be doing this badly en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion...

Miarahaba ny Malagasy rehetra tratry ny fetin’ny fahaleovan-tena! #madagasikara
Best wishes to all Malagasy on the 65th anniversary of independence.

Duolingo Swahili is certainly not shying away from the gender stereotypes.