I don’t have strong opinions about how much money individuals should have, but elevating innovator to god status, with tremendous cultural and political leverage, is an enormous mistake. Especially as these are often some of the worst people.
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Court blocks Trump/GOP/Project 2025 effort to dismantle NCAR: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72496...
5/ the criticism of RCP8.5 is that we couldn’t tap into the implied coal (or wouldn’ turn geologic resources into viable reserves). That’s fine but all of this is beside the point for climate. I completely agree with Katharine hats there’s uncertainty in the actual physical system to bracket ranges
4/ nobody’s storyline would make sense if done around WW2, 1970s oil shocks, fall of USSR, 1929 crash, China’s one-child policy, advent of the internet, etc. We’re also quite blind to geopolitical shocks but capture gradual divergence between worlds.