Climate notes for May 3rd 2024

EVs are still the hot topic. And I was thinking, what if we designed the perfect city car? What features would it have:

• It would be energy efficient
• Eco-friendly (driven by a battery ideally)
• Have a killer motor to get good, fun torque and power off the line
• Tyre efficiency
• Comfortable
• Quick and easy to get through traffic
• Easy to park
• Have a companion app to manage it

Turns out that car is an electric bike.

Tabs

• Heatwaves in Asia; how to cope
• 'Big oil' spent decades misleading us. Once again, we know.
• The politics of food
• Canadian agri leadership fails
• Mayday heat hurts Indian workers
• Heineken fells forrest for the sake of it
• 6m healthcare workers call for plastic restrictions
• The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars
• Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture
• The 3.5% revolution