IT security student. Programmer of digital duck tape, learning to write digital plumbing. Aspiring cryptographer. Personal research interests include zero-knowledge credentials (to counter online antisocial conduct while protecting privacy) and AV/image non-repudiation (to counter deepfakes). Anti-exceptionalist egalitarian. Empirical pragmatist: evidence over ideology, results over rationalization. Theory is as good as the least of its falsifiability, its internal consistency, and its withstanding of attempted disproof. It is as useful as one is willing to revise or replace it when it falls.
IT security student. Programmer of digital duck tape, learning to write digital plumbing. Aspiring cryptographer. Personal research interests include zero-knowledge credentials (to counter online antisocial conduct while protecting privacy) and AV/image non-repudiation (to counter deepfakes). Anti-exceptionalist egalitarian. Empirical pragmatist: evidence over ideology, results over rationalization. Theory is as good as the least of its falsifiability, its internal consistency, and its withstanding of attempted disproof. It is as useful as one is willing to revise or replace it when it falls.
It was the gas cutoff due to the Russian war of aggression against #Ukraine which finally got the #EU and most of the rest of #Europe to finally start catching up with #ParisAgreement obligations by accelerating the transition to energy efficiency and #renewableEnergy. They could no longer keep dragging their feet once their own citizens were freezing in the dark.
How might the #Trump and #Netanyahu war of aggression against #Iran paradoxically affect global demand for #fossilFuels? Will those two oligarchs end up unintentionally accelerating the global energy transition and destroying the majority of the oil and gas market?
In the short term, fossil fuel oligarchs may profit, but in the long term, with #OperationEpsteinFury and Trump's war crimes and crimes against humanity against #Cuba compounding the global effect of Putin's repeated war crimes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure, it's now undeniable that distributed renewable energy generation and storage are not only necessary for the #climateCrisis, but also for economic stability, #sovereignty, and #nationalSecurity.