Parke Wilde
Food policy research and demand-side climate innovation.
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- Recognizing the lack of popular appeal in my boring old factual data analysis: “You don’t really want some economist on the radio telling you, ‘Oh, don’t worry about the food prices — the Bureau of Labor Statistics says food price inflation is normal,’ ” he said. www.wbur.org/news/2026/02...
- The first 3 episodes of the podcast "Sabotage" from @goodluckmedia.bsky.social are full of insight into climate activism, outrageous art-themed protests in museums, the Getty family (connections with oil industry and art), and climate science and scientists. Immediately signed up on Patreon.
- There's no better time to binge all 9 episodes of Sabotage Season 1, now one of @applepodcasts' Best So Far of 2025! tinyurl.com/y2uxz9cw
- When demand exceeds supply, higher prices may restrain demand quantities, or empty shelves may ration supply, but something somewhere must give. "Panic buying ahead of the winter storm isn’t preparedness. Here’s who it hurts." -- Ayurella Horn-Muller @grist.org. grist.org/food-and-agr...
- These 3 sectors are always listed together as "hard-to-abate" but they are distinct. Cement and steel are "hard-" but not "impossible-to-abate" on the supply side. New green cement and steel tech has a cost. But these techs are still highly worthwhile. Aviation, of the 3, is even harder (1/2)
- We often hear about the "hard-to-abate" emissions — especially from cement, steel, aviation... Sometimes these are used to justify crazy carbon removal schemes. But as Sarah Gleeson at Project Drawdown points out, "hard-to-abate" doesn't mean "impossible-to-abate"... drawdown.org/insights/wha...
- ... to abate on the supply side with new tech. Yet, I have long disagreed with the conventional wisdom that it is difficult to abate on the demand side. *Some* aviation is essential and *some* aviation has good substitutes. On balance, we can reduce more ambitiously than has been attempted. (2/2)
- "Yes, obviously." @zackpolanski.bsky.social has such strong political and personal low-carbon convictions that BBC asked if he would fly as prime minister. Simply avoiding unnecessary flying is a sensible troll-proof position. #notjetset www.thenational.scot/news/2581478...
