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The share of the world population in extreme poverty has gone down by about 80% since 1960. And the number of people in extreme poverty has gone down by about 2/3 since 1970. It's …

There's a philosophical discussion to be had here regarding the difference between a gigawatt and a jigawatt!

While 93% of trips are less than 30 miles...I bet the percent of miles travelled on longer trips are significantly higher. I'm probably 80-90%% miles travelled for trips longer tha…

Beyond all the safety stuff, it's also because that car often saves a huge amount of time compared to walking/biking - especially when there are multiple stops involved in an outin…

This footprint based fuel economy is (one of the reasons) WHY the civic is so much larger

Solar and wind are on an exponential trajectory. Our usage isn't. That in itself is enough to make a pretty good prediction that they'll make an impact. That said, there are absolu…

This is exactly the problem. If you do your job as a PM, you get pushed out because doing your job means you'll be ruffling feathers in senior management. So to stick around, you s…

Renewables have replaced roughly half of the coal production decrease (and the other half is gas). Gas just had its growth moment before renewables did. https://www.eia.gov/todayin…

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=55719 Most new capacity is renewable (and it's been that way for years). It's just that there was a whole bunch of natural gas capac…

Accelerating and who knows - everyone is extraordinarily terrible at making predictions about power generation. New solar/wind capacity is already significantly cheaper than new nu…

So I might be missing something here, but is there actual data showing autopilot to be unsafe? And if so...where is it? Elon's marketing claims are wild, safety isn't a priority in…

Yes, because despite there being setbacks, the ozone layer is still healing! The hole is getting smaller

Good luck rebuilding all of our built infrastructure in the next two decades to reduce car dependency in time to meet decarbonization goals...

Decarbonization will have negative externalities. Yes, even environmental ones. I'd argue that those externalities are necessary and delay to mitigate them is going to be worse tha…

Building new inventory and making housing more affordable would dissuade individuals from buying new homes?

Unless you're digging trenches in the soil or paying the elephant foot a visit, the radioactive material under your pillow is actually almost definitely worse for you (depending on…

Because it doesn't give any perspective on any of the actions that Apple is taking. Facts alone don't make an informative article. This one's less egregious than many, but it suffe…

But there's a distinction between what should be allowed vs. what is legally allowed. You're talking about what's legally allowed, the parent comment is talking about what should b…

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Are you talking Montana or Maine? One of those has a MUCH higher fire risk than the other (though both have risk!).

My point is that even if she had been paying full attention, the outcome wouldn't be different. If Uber hasn't wouldn't disabled AEB, it would have been different. Hence Uber is th…

Imho - the driver is being scapegoated here. If you watch the actual video (graphic, don't recommend), the victim only appears for a few frames before the accident. In a normal car…

Who are we kidding...It'll recover within a century or so without humans. Millions of years for birds to re-evolve, but general recovery happens pretty quickly!! We're getting bomb…

But that's a strawman when you can literally cut a hole down a skyscraper and be legal. There's literally no way for FDNY to get a ladder into that hole to rescue someone. To throw…

You're not going to egress out of a 60th floor window...