Re:Speech by Chair Powell on monetary policy and price stabi...
by ambientenv on Monday August 29, 2022 @01:10PM
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Exactly. And I don't think people, in general, have wrapped their heads around what is truly unfolding right in front of us in terms of availability of cheap, accessible high density energy and the increasing impacts of the climate crisis. Energy is the economy and the economy is energy. I like the term, "energy blind" which I've heard Nate Hagens use [1]
Many of the current shortages (industrial plant failures, food shortages) are due to climate issues. Putin isn't helping, but even without the Russia sanctions, we'd still be facing all sorts of shortages (PVC, microchips, olive/sunflower oil, wheat, mustard, water shortages blocking the Panama Canal, etc, etc).
The root cause of all that is climate change, which is worsening linearly with time, which means the backlogged impact on the economy is increasing quadratically.