I recently did a column at IGMS laying out economics as a subset of the biological problem of engendering cooperation in members of the same species.  In a thousand words I didn’t have space to go into religion, but here’s how I actually think of it, more or less, following work by David Sloan Wilson and others.  Capitalism is an example of a r…[Read more]

The key question is: “How do you create the market conditions to make this happen?” Myles Allen’s SAFE carbon proposal directly targeted net carbon emissions. His idea would drive a smooth economic transition from what we have now to a mix of bioenergy and direct air capture with underground sequestration.

I found that fossil gasoline with air…[Read more]