Nouriel Roubini he predicted 20 of the last 3 recessions.

Here's an interesting paragraph from his Wikipedia page:

>>However, financial journalist Justin Fox observed in the Harvard Business Review in 2010 that "In fact, Roubini didn’t exactly predict the crisis that began in mid-2007... Roubini spent several years predicting a very different sort of crisis — one in which foreign central banks diversifying their holdings out of Treasuries sparked a run on the dollar — only to turn in late 2006 to warning of a U.S. housing bust and a global 'hard landing'. He still didn’t give a perfectly clear or (in retrospect) accurate vision of how exactly this would play out... I’m more than a little weirded out by the status of prophet that he has been accorded since."[21][22][23] Others noted that: "The problem is that even though he was spectacularly right on this one, he went on to predict time and time again, as the markets and the economy recovered in the years following the collapse, that there would be a follow-up crisis and that more extreme crashes were inevitable. His calls, after his initial pronouncement, were consistently wrong. Indeed, if you had listened to him, and many investors did, you would have missed the longest bull market run in US market history."[24][25][26][27] Another observed: "For a prophet, he’s wrong an awful lot of the time."[28] Tony Robbins wrote: "Roubini warned of a recession in 2004 (wrongly), 2005 (wrongly), 2006 (wrongly), and 2007 (wrongly)" ... and he "predicted (wrongly) that there'd be a 'significant' stock market correction in 2013."[29] Speaking about Roubini, economist Anirvan Banerjee told The New York Times: "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day," and said: " "The average time between recessions is about five years ... So, if you forecast a recession one year and it doesn't happen, and you repeat your forecast year after year ... at some point the recession will arrive."[30][8] Economist Nariman Behravesh said: "Nouriel Roubini has been singing the doom-and-gloom story for 10 years. Eventually something was going to be right."

There are HVDC lines already that are over 1,000 miles. There's even one connecting Washington state with Los Angeles. Transmission losses are under 3%.

0,015% of this planet is golf courses. Great garbage Pacific patch is the size of a Texas. Also, there are empty dead deserts, landfills, and much unused or poorly used space.

Plus much wind power comes from offshore plants, the surface that no use to humans. So 0,2% is actually much smaller number.

An app that calculates and receipts work you do for the environment. I believe the ecological crisis will worsen to the point where we will eventually get paid or get tax breaks to help the clean up and/or promote “green” carbon neutral activity, thereby working with the capitalist system through incentives.

Obviously legislation needs to happen on a large scale so perhaps it can start as a way to boost communities taking on the effort already and begin a monetization process for existing nonprofits and individuals.

Order of magnitude error and a factor of 2-3 on topof that for work vs heat (if TW is net generation rather than peak). 30TW net is ten USAs of final energy, not one USA of primary energy.

We don't need scifi. Current tech is enough.

Scifi would be cool though.

Also 30TW of thermal generation is borderline in terms of sustainable waste heat levels.

Uruguay, Brazil (including one of their grids serving a largerpopulation than france being majority wind), and a fewother smaller nations.

Or unremediated uranium mines. Lowers the water use to keep from poisoning everything downwind too.

NIMBY is a stretch. More like Not In The Back Yard Of The Town I Was Paid To Crisis Act In.

Meanwhile in imagination land one party politics is also highly efficient. Welcome our ant lords.

Per their presentation, the limiting factor is not mineral extraction, but rather mineral refining.

Apparently, the answer these days is: Build an app to ask chatgpt a question. Charge 5cents for questions.

It indirectly applies to renters, because it incentivizes new construction (given that the mess of zoning regulations is patched)

The USA uses about 100 Quad of energy per year, that’s 29PWh (peta Wh)

30TW 8760 hr/year = 26.2PWh per year at 100% capacity factor

What am I getting wrong here?

I like it. A critique might be it doesn't apply to renters. Just mailing checks is dumber, but it may have a more direct psychological influence.

Whether the cause is genetic or environment, there will never be a cure for stupidity. If anything, it appears that stupidity will become more common. Stupid people elect stupid people to represent them and then they all point fingers at others and call them defective and work together to assure that stupidity will survive.

Simply provide a property tax benefit in the surrounding area

Whataboutism at its finest. Please learn how to properly formulate an argument, because shitty logical fallacies aren't welcome here.

The US is obviously also guilty of unethically invading sovereign nations. That being said, they have not annexed any of the territories in question. Regardless, just because the US does it absolutely does not justify it being done by Russia.

In this case, the US is in a rare position of being on the ethical side in a military conflict. There is no justification for forcibly annexing another country's territory.

Interesting

Do you have evidence of any country that has completely switched over to renewables?

I think southern Australia is pretty close.

All the papers on completely switching to renewables have been rather disappointing. Thinking of Jacobsen.

This proposal should be peer reviewed.

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The following submission statement was provided by /u/Portalrules123:

SS: Nouriel Roubini (a fairly mainstream economist known for accurately warning of the Great Financial Crisis in 2006) is interviewed on Al Jazeera's "The Bottom Line". The entire interview is interesting and rather sobering. His thesis is high debt burdens, supply shocks, technologies that exacerbate inequality, domestic political turmoil, geopolitical tensions, and environmental problems are going to severely hurt the global economy, and that some of these problems feed off each other and make them worse. Young people who feel (correctly) that they are worse off than their parents will be a source of discontent.Quote from around the nine minute eleven second mark: "Things are worse than the 70s and worse than the post GFC period. In some dimensions, things are even worse than the 1930s".

It's definitely gonna be harder to maintain the mental health of the youngest generation the more of them come to realize that the actions of their priors have doomed them to worse quality of life, that's for sure...

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/11glvjh/dr_doom_world_headed_for_dark_times_in_the_next/jaozek6/

I have it on good authority that globalization is the devil. So, de-globalization should be awesome-sauce.

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SS: Nouriel Roubini (a fairly mainstream economist known for accurately warning of the Great Financial Crisis in 2006) is interviewed on Al Jazeera's "The Bottom Line". The entire interview is interesting and rather sobering. His thesis is high debt burdens, supply shocks, technologies that exacerbate inequality, domestic political turmoil, geopolitical tensions, and environmental problems are going to severely hurt the global economy, and that some of these problems feed off each other and make them worse. Young people who feel (correctly) that they are worse off than their parents will be a source of discontent.Quote from around the nine minute eleven second mark: "Things are worse than the 70s and worse than the post GFC period. In some dimensions, things are even worse than the 1930s".

It's definitely gonna be harder to maintain the mental health of the youngest generation the more of them come to realize that the actions of their priors have doomed them to worse quality of life, that's for sure...