Opinion | Can You Believe This Is Happening in America?
You don’t have to listen very carefully to hear it. While it is still early to say definitively, the Texas Freeze fits the recent pattern of increasingly disastrous “global wear”. I prefer the term “climate change” or “global warming”. As average global temperatures increase, snow melts, jet currents change and weather changes. Hats get hot, colds get cold, wet gets wet, dryers dry up and the most violent storms come more often. Once a 100-year flood, draft, heat wave or deep freeze occurs every few years. In this way we will experience climate change.
according to a recent report From the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: “The US has sustained 285 weather and climate disasters since 1980, with overall damage / costs reaching $ 1 billion (2020 including CPI adjustment). The total cost of these 285 events is more than $ 1.875 trillion. … including the years 1998, 2008, 2011–2012 and 2015–2020, with 10 or more billion-dollar disaster events. “This year, after this Texas disaster alone, can set a record – and we are only in February.
If global wearing is our new normal, then we need a whole new level of buffers, redundants and suppliers to create flexibility for our power grid – and many more distributed forms of energy, such as solar, that enable households to live in Can occur when the grid goes down. Looking for maximum benefits around fossil fuels in an era of global wear Just begging To be marked
As Hall HarveyThe CEO of Energy Innovation commented to me: “Kevmen understood that you have to store things to be safe. Birds know that squirrels know that. So, what are we doing? And what was Texas doing? “
Every leader needs to ask those questions. Leadership always matters. But today, it matters more than ever on every level. Because at a slow age, if you had a bad leader in your city, state or country and derailed, the pain of going back on track was bearable. Now, when climate change, globalization, and technology are all intensifying at once, small errors in navigation can have enormous consequences. They can leave your community or country so far that the pain of getting back on track can be painful.
Just look at Texas and you will know what I mean. And just look at Mars, and think about the mind-set we’ve got there, and you’ll know what to change.
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