Tabs More-or-Less About Climate Change

There are, once again, lots of tabs. So here are the ones related to climate change.

Good news posts:

Emissions-free energy system saves heat from the summer sun for winter. ​A research group from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has made great, rapid strides towards the development of a specially designed molecule that can store solar energy for later use. Their work was presented in four scientific articles in 2018. The next steps are to combine everything together into a coherent system. Researchers estimate it could have commercial application within 10 years.

The sequel: life after economic growth by Shaun Chamberlain.

Hope and fellowship by Dave Roberts, from 2013, back when he was at Grist. "Remember, there is no 'too late' here, no 'game over' — it will be a tragedy to shoot past 2 degrees to 3, but 4 is worse than 3, and 5 is worse than 4. Being unprepared for any of those will be much worse than being prepared. The future always forks; there are always better and worse paths ahead. There’s always a difference to be made. When we ask for hope, then, I think we’re just asking for fellowship. The weight of climate change, like any weight, is easier to bear with others."

The case for making transit free (and how to pay for it) from The Urbanist.

Why walkable cities are good for the economy. From Vox.

The Green New Deal, explained. By Dave Roberts at Vox.

The truly big picture. By Alex Steffen.

Six principles to for pricing driving to reduce congestion, pollution, and crashes. From Spur News.

In-between posts:

Online shopping is terrible for the environment. It doesn’t have to be. From Vox.

'How do I break bad news about climate change?' A six-step guide to honest and compassionate conversations. From Yale Climate Connections.

The case for conditional optimism on climate change. By Dave Roberts at Vox.

What's limiting us? By Jonathan Foley, now executive director of Project Drawdown.

Why more and more cities aren't prioritizing your parking problems. From Governing.

It's time to redefine the single-occupancy vehicle. From Strong Towns.

Grim critiques (things to make you angry or something similar):

Predatory delay and the rights of future generations by Alex Steffen.

Elon and the collective. Everything (and a little bit maybe right) with the many projects of Elon Musk.

Why the climate change message isn't working. An excerpt from Charles Eisenstein's book Climate—A New Story, which I am going to read soon.

What the believers are denying. Ibram X. Kendi for the Atlantic. The denial of climate change and the denial of racism rest on the same foundation: an attack on observable reality.

Big cars kill: "monster" vehicles make you feel safer, but they're more likely cause fatal collisions. From the Canadian newspaper the National Post. Montreal scientists sifted through data on three million Canadian crashes and found driving an SUV instead of a car makes a driver 224 per cent more likely to cause a fatal crash; a study UC San Diego, found every life saved in a large vehicle came at the expense of 4.3 dead pedestrians, motorcyclists and car drivers.

It's simple. If we can't change our economic system, our number's up. By George Monbiot from the Guardian.