Singaporean realism, carbon-free Texas & the Bathysphere
Great links, images and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Anna Bella Geiger Opostos 1974 Arts and Culture
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More than 40 percent of Texas power in 2022 was carbon-free, level-pegging with Germany
You don’t have to do it in China - Samsung in Vietnam
In December 2022 Samsung Electronics launched a $220 million research and development center in Hanoi
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Of $1.5 trillion in economic losses from disasters over the past five years, just $561 billion was covered by insurance.
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Development not population drives global CO2 emissions
From the excellent new substack of Hanna Ritchie. Highly recommended.
Building More Housing Makes It Cheaper. Really.
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Again for our independence: v. Napoleon v. Franco
Spherical Descent:
On the Bathysphere and Voyages Into the Abyss. A poetic history of descents, both real and fictional. This article is excerpted from William Firebrace’s book “Memo for Nemo,” a cultural history of living in the undersea, both fictional and real, from Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo to NASA’s ECC02 project
Source: MIT Press
Anna Bella Geiger, Untitled, 1962, etching, 30 x 29 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
James Crabtree interviews Bilahari
Few Asian geopolitical observers are as controversial or as widely quoted as Bilahari Kausikan. After nearly four decades as a diplomat, Bilahari—as he is always known—now acts as roving Singaporean intellectual, willing to speak truths from which others in Southeast Asia often shy away. His is a blunt and unsentimental brand of realpolitik in the tradition of Singapore’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, a leader for whom he worked as a young foreign service officer.
Source: Mekong Review
Taiwan shelters
Taiwan has 105,000 shelters with the capacity to house a total of 86 million people
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