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Michael Ryerson's avatar

Bravo! I always take pleasure in your gift with the language. But of course, the pleasure is more on the order of a dead cat bounce as I'm left with what you said as the pleasure of how you said it fades. Nevertheless, keep on, keepin' on, brother.

Weldon Berger's avatar

Thanks for the kind words, Mike. It had been a minute since I heard "dead cat bounce" and then in the space of a day I saw it from you and from an episode of a detective show I've been binging.

John Hunt's avatar

My job is to teach students that climate change is fixable, but like you, I don't believe it's fixable in that the political and economic will to do it doesn't exist. I second MR's opinion about your writing.

Weldon Berger's avatar

Thanks, John. There's the damage we've already done and which isn't reversible, or not for some hundreds of years at least, and then there's the further damage we could but won't avoid because wealthy people and corporate executives, to the extent those are distinguishable, are monsters. Did you know there's been something of a property boom in places like Buffalo and Duluth, with wealthy people buying up acreage and homes on the theory that those areas will be a temperate, well-resourced paradise before too long?

Rainbow Roxy's avatar

Brilliant. Your analysis of India's energy shift is incredibily insightful. Do you foresee this dynamic repeating in other large emerging markets?