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1 week ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan |Rupert Read
Do you want the good news or bad news first? Good news: here in the UK it’s a sunny Friday on the cusp of a bank holiday weekend. Bad news: Shiz cray. Could go either way: this is one of 3 holiday weekend episodes. Definitely good news: Lydia Collas of UK think tank Green Alliance and Rupert Read of Climate Majority Project have incisive analysis of what we’re seeing over here.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan
Welcome back to Wicked Problems. We’ve been busy making mischief in various ways so it’s been a bit between episodes. Today’s exit track is Fiesta by The Pogues - with Tunbridge Wells’ least-known and best-loved frontman, Shane MacGowan. We’re finishing a long-read and when we say long we mean LONG.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan
This is Part Two of a Whole ThingYou don’t have to, but you might want to check out Part I:More years ago than I care to count I found myself in a boss-level-nerd summer course on “futurism”. If you want to judge the likelihood of any future scenario, the lesson plan said, there are only three basic questions:Is it possible? Is it preferable? Is it profitable? Even aged 13, my annoying question to the teacher was, “for who?”And even if Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
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3 weeks ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan
Counter-revolutions aren’t usually source of drama. If in the 23rd century someone makes a Lin Manuel Miranda-type musical to explain this moment, instead of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, it will need to feature Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. They keep meeting. Sometimes they are on the same side, though not always at the same time. They may see themselves as fellow “immigrants [who] get the job done”.
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4 weeks ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan |Dana Fisher
All will become clear. NGL. It’s not great, Bob. That said, if you have even a smidge of privilege at the moment, spending a bit of your time paying attention not just to the moment-to-moment spectacle but what it means - so as to inform how you spend your future time and resource - feels kinda important. Wicked Problems is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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1 month ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan |Pete Irvine |Josh Horton
Welcome back. Are you Zen now or still want more winning? All will become clear. It didn’t take a genius to figure out that passing 1.5C would result in previously-taboo ideas like scaling carbon removals and solar geoengineering would rapidly get traction in the mainstream discourse. I know it doesn’t take a genius because I wrote that >18 months ago. And as my bank manager and inlaws will (eagerly) tell you – “wait you’re quitting corporate...
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1 month ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan
Ok so the Trump tariffs are unleashed and somehow – despite the Donald saying this was the plan not just during the campaign but for decades, despite him and his crew saying over and over that they finally settled on when America was great and it was the gilded age of the 1890s – people didn’t quite believe he’d do it.
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1 month ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan
Happy Liberation Day to those who celebrate! If you were sick and tired of lower costs on everything from consumer goods to core raw materials and components essential for climate tech, today is your day!Good news for Beijing’s relative power and influence, especially if Europe and soon to be former US allies in the rest of Asia accelerate a decoupling from US supply chains and go with the obvious new partner in China.
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1 month ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan
All will become clear. But we hope Guy Ritchie, the IRA, and our guest approve:The electricity grid is more fragile and more vulnerable than it needs to be for what we’re asking the basically 120-yr-old tech to do in 2025. Last week’s outage after an explosion at the substation nearest Heathrow, London’s busiest airport, was a reminder of that. Before founding grid tech rising star ENODA, Paul Domjan advised the US defence dept, NATO and plenty of others on energy security.
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1 month ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan
“ We don't know who's behind [the Heathrow outage and an oil terminal in Norway yesterday]. We don't know exactly what happened, but I think that the basis here is that there are too many of those for them to be a string of very unfortunate events. Wicked Problems is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. And in particular when, for instance, we examine what's going on in the Baltic Sea, where we see.
