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Disruption, Implications and Choices.
Rethinking Transportation
Is the allure of the motor car starting to fade?
Americans love their cars. Have done since the first Model T Ford rolled off the production line back in 1908. By the mid-20s, more than 20 million were registered in the US.
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Zero emission miles: How to decarbonize road transport quickly and cheaply
In my last blog, I talked in some detail about the need for leaders to rethink their road transport climate policy. This involves focusing on zero-emission miles (ZEMs) rather than zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs).
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Zero emission miles not zero emission vehicles: Why leaders are driving climate policy in the wrong direction
Policymakers the world over are waking up to the power of electric road transportation. The problem is, they’re focusing on the wrong metrics.
Read MoreRethinking Food & Agriculture
Cell-based meat approved in the US for the first time ever
Earlier this week it was announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declared UPSIDE Foods’ cultured chicken safe to eat. This approval came in the form of a No Questions Letter from the FDA in response to the application for GRAS, or Generally Regarded as Safe, …
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could spark global food riots – the solution is precision fermentation
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is about to set in motion a chain of feedback effects leading to a sudden, rapid escalation of global political instability. Various UN agencies, and now the IMF, have warned of social unrest at a similar scale to the ‘Arab Spring’ events in 2011. What few understand is …
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The Coming Global Fertilizer Crisis – and How to Solve it (The Pattern of Disruption, Part 5)
A global food crisis is looming, with high natural gas prices driving up the cost of ammonia fertilizer and the war in Ukraine threatening this year’s crops from both there and Russia. The consequences of mishandling this crisis could be dire. Research by complexity theorist Yaneer Bar-Yam suggests that high …
Read MoreRethinking Investment
JP Morgan’s misinformation on the clean energy disruption – a handy guide
The JP Morgan Asset and Wealth Management Annual Energy Paper is one of the most influential publications among global investment and business leaders in the energy sector. But JP Morgan Chase’s 2021 Annual Energy Paper is a deeply flawed piece of work that promotes some serious misinformation about the …
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The power of disruption: Winners take it all
Tony Seba’s virtual stock portfolio, created 15 years ago and containing some of the most disruptive companies of the 21st century, has returned more than 2,500%, outperforming the market by 10x.
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