They're smoking money. The raison d'être of the Heritage Foundation is to promote the interests of the wealthy over those of the rest of us.
There's a contagion effect, where news of school shootings inspires others to attempt the same.
It does, but importantly, it's fiction. So it raises some (but not all ) of the relevant issues, but doesn't necessarily present a realistic view of how things will play out.
More would involve some serious spoilers.
Sulfur dioxide added to the stratosphere might cool the world for a few years. They're selling offsets though, so they give people permission to add CO₂ which causes the world to warm for hundreds of thousands of years
There's a real problem with that.
Yep, but district heating and cooling is rare; it exists in a few major cities and a few university and corporate campuses.
See the article.
Politics tends to not work and not work and suddenly work once you have sufficient power.
In the US:
- There were occasional quiet warnings of the problem to politicians starting in the 1950s.
- In the 1980s we got to the point of being able to get testimony in front of congress, but didn't have a single vote for action
- In the 1990s, we had only a handful of politicians who would be willing to vote for any kind of meaningful action
- In the 2000s we had legislation pass the house, but die in Senate because there were only ~40/100 votes in favor there
- In 2021 we actually got carrots-only legislation passed into law
We're not where we need to be yet, but it's clear that you can actually get something that way.
Doesn't help that the Internet Archive is hosted in a cool-looking building in San Francisco
And that means Liberal, no matter how neutral they might be.
He was
director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office
For context, US emissions are about 6 billion tons per year. There are real reasons to disagree with Gaza policy, but the greenhouse gas emissions you're talking are quite tiny by comparison
Ideally, would be both. And it likely means getting Congress on board.