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2 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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3 weeks 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.
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1 month ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan
How do you decide when it’s time to zig when everybody else is about to zag? Wicked Problems is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. We chatted about that with Malin Östman, the head of strategy at Wärtsilä, who explains how the Finnish tech giant is They also discuss the importance of balancing technologies to ensure reliability, as well as the strategic moves Wärtsilä is making in the U.S. energy market.
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1 month ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan |Virginia Heffernan
For reasons that should become clear…Ben Cooke, Earth Editor at The Times and returning champion guest on Wicked Problems, walks us through why his news outlet just devoted a whole series to climate adaptation. Over the past 18 months, a big thesis of this project is that a certain amount of climate risk and climate effects are already happening. Very few people are willing to talk about it publicly, which I think has put all of us at a huge disadvantage.
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1 month ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan
Days seem like weeks, weeks seem like decades. It’s hard to be bored at the moment. But rather easy to seem bored, because the glazed look and paralytic affect following overload, with a bit of saliva dripping down your chin, can be hard to distinguish from extreme boredom. For reasons that will become clear: 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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2 months ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan
Mais enfants, I am in a dark f*cking mood. Not gonna lie. A year ago, I was stopped in my tracks when in our first chat friend-of-the-show Tadzio Müller had a darkly funny take on the bumper-sticker version of Whig historiography. I’ve quoted it (prob to destruction) ever since. Bit of background to see why. 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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2 months ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan |Dana Drugmand
This edition is supported by our friends at the Climate Majority Project. If you’re in the UK, and have decided it’s time to do something more than doomscrolling and more useful than throwing paint…on 15-16 March at Limehouse in London. Get more info and tickets here. Welcome to the global edition F*ck Around and Find Out. We're in the Find Out phase. The F Around phase went on for 50 years or so. We're a couple of weeks since the height of the fires in Los Angeles.