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Will Britain starve?

Come on! Consider: UK requires food imports. Example: We use more pasture than there is total land in the country.
But that’s fine? Sure, now. But what if harvests around the world fail?
We can grow more here? Tricky, worsening due to increasing rain. 2024: wheat -21%, barley -26%, Oilseed rape -32%/
That means? Imports. A lot of imports. Always. Forever. And if not…
Read more: Guardian on 2024 harvest disaster; Carbon Brief on food strategy

Green not good when it’s ANTARCTICA

Why this matters? Um, that’s obvious, it’s supposed to be white.
Accelerating? Yes. 14x increase in green areas - driven by 3°C increase, more than anywhere.
Read more: Nature

Chinese batteries so cheap EVs will cost same as petrol cars by 2026, also kills European battery production

The Chinese are going for it. Building so much, so cheap it’s upending the world. Can already produce 2x global consumption, with plans to 3x that number.
Europeans can compete? No, the European battery manufacturers are going bust, fast.
Read more: Goldman Sachs on price drops; T&E on Europe’s battery problems

One thing to worry about

Global wildlife population down by 73% since 1970 (WWF).

I’ll just leave that there.

One thing to be optimistic about

Remember: We’re human, we invent.

In 2019, I helped my late friend Tim Evans found 3ti. He wanted to combine solar, batteries and EV chargers - in one easily installed unit. And now the team have done it.

Great video from Everything Electric 🙏.

If you’ve got more time, read this…

One of the most interesting things I’ve read in a while.

Tomas Pueyo argues that pumping sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere will solve climate change. As in, stop the warming.

He says it’s low-cost and highly effective, and that we should get on with it. And the arguments are surprisingly strong:

• SO2 injection could reflect 1-2% of sunlight, potentially offsetting the warming effects of CO2 entirely

• Only about 2m tons of SO2 per year would be needed to counteract current warming, which is 2% of what we already emit - this time we’d put it higher into the atmosphere, where it’d make less difference

• The method involves using balloons to release SO2 in the stratosphere, about 20 km above the Earth's surface

• SO2’s effects have been studies for decades and are minimal

A lot of people HATE this idea. They think it’s a moral hazard reducing the urgency of renewables… and that we have no idea of the side effects.

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