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0 pointsyupper323y ago0 comments

Why exclude the pandemic/remote work?

But to exclude it for a bit, my personal, super anecdotal and biased view is that those years were very different.

2003 had low hope for a better future, but there was a lot of action in the fallout of 9/11. It felt like we were at least trying, even if it ended up being a horrible try.

2013 I felt hope for a better future, but there wasn't a lot of action to make that a reality.

2023 and there's zero hope for a better future and we're doing nothing about it.

We need at least hope or action.

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dntrkv3y ago

It depends on what you think is important, but there is a lot more happening today in addressing our problems than back in 2013 or 2003, imo.

I think many can agree that climate change is one of the higher priority efforts, and in the last few years, we've seen some major progress.

In the US, renewables make up the vast majority of new generating capacity, by far and solar deployments are growing at a rapid pace. We were still deploying significant amounts of coal plants 10 years ago, nowadays, it's basically zero. [https://www.seia.org/solar-industry-research-data]. China has doubled its solar deployments in the last year.

Wind deployments are accelerating [https://www.iea.org/reports/wind-electricity]

EVs are gaining marketshare at a fast pace, many countries/states are banning ICE sales in the near future. [https://www.virta.global/en/global-electric-vehicle-market]

Cost of lithium batteries has fallen by 89% since 2010 [https://cleanpower.org/facts/clean-energy-storage/]

US passed the IRA which has the potential to really accelerate these changes.

Still not enough of course, but we are seeing significant progress compared to 2013.

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