It's easy to make fun of #NYC infrastructure and how, well, Capital of the 20th Century things seem. And then you read about one turnstile getting spun 3 million times a year, and you can just stare in awe
https://www.curbed.com/article/busiest-turnstile-nyc-subway-mta-grand-central.html

#trains #infrastructure #MTA

Hard to keep up with all the tariff talk these days, but here goes:

Dear #POTUS,

Link Chinese steel tariffs to the carbon content of steel, and you achieve more than one goal at once.

Linked to the relative carbon content of domestic and foreign steel, you'll encourage decarbonization both here and abroad, and you help the domestic steel industry.

Same logic as with EV tariffs, joint with Shang-Jin Wei: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/western-tariffs-wrong-response-to-chinese-ev-subsidies-by-gernot-wagner-and-shang-jin-wei-2024-04

#economics #climate #steel #trade #tariffs

Important new book, aptly summarized in this NYT op-ed:

Jisung Park makes the compelling case that lots -- most? -- of the real climate hurt lies in the "subtler accumulation of innumerable slow and unequal burns that are already underway"

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/opinion/climate-change-heat-hurricane.html?unlocked_article_code=1.k00.UFHj.ThnDtckd0Z-k&smid=url-share [gift link]

#climate #heat #weather