ME:: tl;dr-ing Renewable energy as fast as possible makes economic and all kinds of other sense ; Paul Krugman:: Talking with David Roberts
Discovered: Mar 31, 2026 14:32 (UTC) ME:: tl;dr-ing Renewable energy as fast as possible makes economic and all kinds of other sense ; Paul Krugman:: Talking with David Roberts <– QUOTE: One of the things I’m fond of saying is the shift to clean energy is overdetermined in terms of justification. You can justify it on a climate basis, but you can also take climate out of it entirely and still justify it easily. You can justify it purely on the basis of reductions in particulate pollution. The research on particulate pollution, it’s just gotten worse and worse and worse. We’re expanding our notion of how much damage it does. So just the public health benefits of reduced particulate pollution alone could pay for the transition. Or you can take pollution out of it. Just focus on AI, just focus on competitiveness with China. Take any one of these reasons. They all point the same direction. They all point: shift to clean renewable energy as fast as possible