The Writing on the Wall
By Jeremy Leggett, Jeremy Leggett blog
The Norwegian government has just mandated its sovereign wealth fund, the biggest such wealth fund, to divest from pure oil and gas explorers. This is a significant landmark in the global battle to abate global heating.
The FT Editorial Board Has a Problem with Those who Pretend to Solve Climate Change. Who Might they Have in Mind?
By Jeremy Leggett, Jeremy Leggett blog
“The depressing reality about climate change is that we could solve the problem, at manageable cost, but are failing to do so.” So the Financial Times Editorial Board concluded on 26th December.
The Test: Excerpt from Chapter 2
By Jeremy Leggett, Jeremy Leggett blog
But these numbers are surely one of the most spectacular examples of how dysfunctional our world can be. Passing The Test does not require re-engineering the world according to some theoretically perfect model. It merely involves making it a little less dysfunctional.
The Test: Excerpt
By Jeremy Leggett, Jeremy Leggett blog
And so to The Test. I make the basic case, and repeat the question that frustrates me so much. How can it be that, collectively, we are missing such an open goal? I am sure that the reasons are multi-faceted. But there is one simple over-arching answer. None of us are trying hard enough. Not governments, not companies, not international organisations, not non-governmental organisations.
Jeremy Leggett’s New Serialised Free-Download Book, The Test: Chapter 1
By Jeremy Leggett, Jeremy Leggett blog
It seems clear to me now what SolarAid should do in the next year. We should try to work with enough of those companies and organisations, in clever enough ways, that we play a useful role - maybe a catalytic role, if we can - in ensuring that civilisation passes The Test.
The Problem of Mexico’s Oil and Trump’s Wall
By Jeremy Leggett, Jeremy Leggett blog
What do you do if you are running out of oil, and your neighbour’s President, who has plenty of oil, seems to hate you? The answer is that you develop a renewable-powered economy as fast as you can.
Appropriate Civilization versus New Despotism, month 3, 21st March – 20th April 2017
By Jeremy Leggett, Jeremy Leggett blog
When it comes to climate and the global clean energy transition, there cannot be vacuums, there can only be drivers, and we are committed to driving this agenda forward.
Appropriate Civilization versus New Despotism, Month 2: Tech-for-good and truth take a pounding
By Jeremy Leggett, Jeremy Leggett blog
...a Microsoft researcher warned openly this month that AI, even in its current state, is ripe for abuse by aspiring despots: perfectly suited to the centralizing of power, tracking of populations down to the last individual, the demonizing of outsiders, all while radiating authority via a faux neutrality. “This is a fascist’s dream,” said Microsoft’s Kate Crawford, pulling no punches. “Power without accountability.”