i went to a clean tech conference last month, dissociated in a hotel ballroom for 3 days about how Big Oil has embedded itself into funding the tech we need to dig ourselves out of the mess it made, & wrote about it for @thenation.com@amywestervelt.bsky.social

I Saw the Future of Climate Technology—and Its Big-Oil Investors

At the Cleantech North America conference, the fates of climate-tech start-ups are tangled into the balance sheets of companies who caused the crisis in the first place.

Also, not to be a kiss ass or anything, but this piece is extremely well written. Like scary good. Not a journalism expert, but content like this seems to be in short supply. Kudos.

Thanks for sharing. This article reignited a nagging question I've had for while, 'Assuming humanity is good at self-correcting, do I need to worry about climate change?' Obviously, it's yes. But do stories like this reinforce the idea of self-correction?

"I felt the familiar pit of despair in my gut that I get when I think about just how little time we have left to act on climate: of how quickly our world seems to already be spinning out of control, even at less than 1.5° of warming, let alone the 2° Gates seems to be hand-waving away" Exactly this