I’m reading 3 “books” right now: Bill Gates “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster”, Barbara Kingsolver’s “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” and Biden-Harris’s “We call it ‘infrastructure’ but that’s not really what we’re spending it on.”

My takeaway? I think we should embrace that the planet is likely going to continue to warm and that humans will (as we always have) simply adapt. The trade offs to get to net zero are not possible. They simply aren’t. We are throwing money at a problem that we should let economics solve. Example: why are we talking replacing 1 billion ICE vehicles with EVs when hybrids might be the better efficiency answer? Why are we paying to strip CO2 out of the air in America when 350 coal plants are being built in Asia? And why are we paying $174B for EV credits if they are more cost effective already?

But the bigger issue to me is our focus on CO2 is taking away from focus on H2O. A human can live ~3 days without it. Desalination occurs at 16,000 facilities world wide because our demand for water is massive as the population grows. And in the U.S. we can reduce water usage by eating less food, which would improve the obesity crisis and help solve CV-19. Where is the money in the Infrastructure bill for that?

Eat less, exercise more.

#hottakeoftheday