Status Updates From Power Trip: The Story of En...

Meh

Interesting connection to the feminist movement. It comes off as a little shallow, but this topic could have a whole chapter by itself imo so it’s forgivable.

What a bizarre ending to this chapter (you can pay to drive a car in a circuit on a dirt road when Chauffeur services become popular).

Issue of internal consistency in this book. I liked the beginning of this chapter too, but some of the things he was saying aren’t very well thought out/simplistic/special pleading.

Another questionable statement. “Israel uses advanced desalinization to meet water needs”. As I understand it desalinization is extremely energy intensive, which is an ironic given the complaints about water waste/energy associated with bottled water, fashion, pools, etc. This should be interrogated like the others instead of just uncritically mentioned as a solution.

Another annoying thing related to my last observation.

>”People are dismissing climate scientists because they don’t want to make infrastructure investments”
>”Access to cheap and reliable energy will dramatically improve the standard of living of people in the developing world!”

Maybe (2) is a better explanation of the lack of infrastructure investment that is being lamented previously.

Always a bit of a bugbear of mine. People generally speaking believe in CC (you can look at polling from Yale’s (seven?) americas survey if you don’t believe me. So reducing the discourse to “people are ignoring the scientists” is inaccurate or not helpful.