Noah Smith

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Who says you can't have it all? Photographer: Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg

ReflexionesPensamiento, Cultura y Ciencia

The fight to develop renewable energy is a battle of good against evil, and the future of humanity hangs in the balance.

No, I’m not talking about climate change (though that is certainly important). I’m talking about the distribution of wealth and power across the whole planet. The question of who will reap the benefits of future growth hinges on whether we discover new, better sources of energy.

The story of our species goes like this. For thousands of years, humanity’s energy budget was basically fixed -- we got energy from our own bodies, from animals and from wood. All of those came from land -- whoever had the land controlled the energy.…  Seguir leyendo »

MundoAsia

I was a Shinzo Abe skeptic. That’s putting it mildly. After all, I was still living in Japan when Abe’s disastrous first term in office put a halt to the reform process begun by Junichiro Koizumi, and ushered in a return to the bad old days of prime minister musical chairs that paralyzed Japan in the 1990s.

When Abe swept back into power in 2012, I thought he was just going to try to talk down the yen and give a little boost to stocks, increasing his public support just long enough to ram through a revision of Japan’s pacifist constitution.…  Seguir leyendo »