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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It is truly crazy-making how many public health and climate researchers *do not seem to understand* the impact that cars have on the field they study.

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

Ditto, criminology / crime prevention scholars. In the UK - while in the midst of a huge prison crisis - motoring offences represent 60% of sentences, and there are roughly as many cases on causing death due to illegal driving as there are murders. Yet not many seem to care about these.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Americans that spent years talking about climate change, changed their tune to some kind of pragmatism because China dominating green tech. They crowned Natural Gas as the pragmatism saviour. Indians are doing the same thing with coal now.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Centrists tout “moderation” as automatic smart politics, but ducking fights on energy and immigration ultimately leaves the same voters hung out to dry. Winning by default against unpopular incumbents isn’t some campaign strategy success. It’s just building towards another backlash.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Abundant Nautral Gas is something that will only exist on paper. Its supply chain is filled with risk averse companies, that rely on single supplier chokepoints,long snail paced certification process and with existing shortages. If Abundant natural gas was possible we would have it in 2025.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The two of the biggest areas you see this in with obsession with natural graphite instead of synthetic graphite for anodes. Pitching NCM or Sodium Ion as alternatives where the supply chain won’t be reliant on China and still be competitive with Chinese LFP.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Underrated Chinese advantage in battery and rare earth supply chain is American,Indian and European ecosystem is filler snake oil salesmen, who profit of the panic and Chinese weaponization. A lot of money is allotted for technologies that are going to fail or only have a track record of failing.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Would fare evasion discourse among Americans even exists if they had proof of payment and aggregated passes like annual and monthly passes? If fare evasion is considered antisocial behaviour, then it makes sense to have prosocial policies.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The progress with self driving cars especially in Western circles is extremely overstated because nobody really writes about hardware,software and storage challenges that come with it. General diseconomies of scale keep getting ignored. It’s a bit like “AGI is 2 years away”

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Australia probably has the largest right-wing media empire promoting climate denial. Yet its overall impact seems modest, because imported Chinese technology is cheaper and better, and there is no domestic car industry lobbying for protectionism.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Moderating on immigration, and even on policies like tariffs and cultural issues, will work against abundant housing and energy. Some issues require fighting on the unpopular side until you win. Even if it’s by lowering its salience.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The world has really memoryholed 2022. USA and EU specifically wanted India to buy more Russian oil. They even eased insurance rules to allow it. The fear was that either the oil prices would rise or that only China would get access to the discounted crude.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

This is higher than Indonesia and Vietnam. It does undercut the rationale that not allowing Chinese investment and goods would make it easier to be an alternative to China. It’s the worst of both worlds to get squeezed by both China and USA.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

One aspect air conditioning discourse kind of misses is the current level of air conditioning is very close falling short with the kind of heat we are facing. We saw that in May and June of 2024 in India. It did repeat itself for a fewer days in 2025.

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 09/07/2025

The copper tariffs are going to hit NYC construction particularly hard, since our code still requires copper water supply lines where most of the rest of the US now uses plastics (plastics are less labor-intensive to work with, and NYC codes often bow to labor interests) www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/u...

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Copper now costs way more in the U.S. than elsewhere. This could hit its economy hard

The huge discrepancy in U.S. prices compared to those elsewhere is expected to have a major economic impact.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/07/2025

anti-doomer sentence of the day: "Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last" www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Tariffs on Brazil and Laos, combined with the lack of engagement in Myanmar and 50% tariffs on copper, will hurt Chile. All of this strengthens China’s supply chain in critical minerals, pushing it closer to a monopoly. Also ensures Chinese renewables and EVs will dominate the market in the future.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

A lot of Indians follow YIMBYs in the US but assume that NIMBYism doesn’t exist in India. In reality, NIMBYism gets reported in the US largely because YIMBYs are so active and vocal. India’s NIMBY tendencies are far worse, but they go unreported.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Everyone from India to the US to the EU treats Chinese control of rare earths as a consequence of listening to environmentalists, which will lead to a backlash against EVs & renewables. But China’s REE dominance is really about intricate chemistry and the ability to automate complex processes.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The main argument for free buses is that many people can’t afford fares, so making transit free seems logical. But even without a decline in service, it could take five years or more for people who currently can’t afford fares to fully benefit from free transit.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

One of the successes of Abundance(book) and its following discourse is that, it’s convinced nearly all of its critics that moderate voters and dems are YIMBYs while progressives are the biggest NIMBY obstacle to increasing housing supply. The critics also largely accepted this framing.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

We are at a point where renewables and EV would win most of the market competition vs high emissions technologies. But trade barriers and protectionist regulation keeps that from happening.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

2010s was spent worrying about whether the world would be able to solve the technological & economic challenges of climate change solutions. In the 2020s, it’s clear that we have ‘solved’ both, but deliberate policy intervention remains the biggest obstacle to their adoption.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Water availability and usage are local problems that require local solutions. The excess water in Seattle cannot realistically or logistically be used to solve water scarcity issues in Chennai. Water issues aren’t like emissions and shouldn’t be analyzed as such.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Earlier reviews of the book, as well as the book itself, regardless of whether the reviews were positive or negative, fell into a dichotomy. This is the best kind of review because it realizes that dichotomy is an unproductive trap.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

As someone who agrees with policy ideas on “Abundance” really wish Ezra Klein had different partner than Derek Thompson. Derek overall comes across as very insincere and pushes for false dichotomies.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Hard to propose any policy these days without claiming it’ll increase working class support for Dems and save the country from fascism. Sad to say, we don’t actually know

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

official take on Abundance: pretty good policy ideas, actually. Their political/electoral effects are overstated, but we’re in an era of overstated political effects

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Air pollution in Delhi, particularly the AQI, has been mistakenly perceived as a linear problem, where reducing its number slightly is considered sufficient. This has led to the belief that air pollution is a temporary issue, manageable by focusing only on a few days each year.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Does anyone have an Indian starter pack on Bluesky? Something that makes it easier to follow everyone?

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Has anyone written, made a video, or a podcast about the implications of Trump’s deportation plan and immigration policy on construction workers?

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Housing and transit policy in India suffers from a lack of basic interdisciplinary focus. Few engage across domains, and those who do—mainly economists and certain engineers—tend to undervalue other disciplines, influencing decisions based on a narrow reactionary perspective.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

It’s hard to not see xenophobia and elitist NIMBYism even in the most well intentioned anti-tourist sentiment coming from progressives.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

When discussing Delhi Metro ridership, it's important to clarify whether the reference is to the census or audited ridership, which counts the number of unique riders per day, or to the DMRC's media reported ridership, which often includes duplicate entries & doesn't account for only unique riders.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Even though NIMBYism is something primarily spoken about in the western context. Opposing it is the very first step in beating nativist xenophobes and protecting migrants in Indian cities. Especially tourist cities NIMBYest xenophobia has gained so much solidarity among Indian progressives.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

This is really the same case within India. One thing that’s better is Hindutva isn’t as successful as Zionism in terms of having defenders within liberal spaces. Even when Noah Smith attempted to do so, he had to write a backtrack balancing act soon. Fareed Zakaria faced mainstream criticism.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

One of thing everyone struggles with is emotions and rationale that comes with being a captive voter. Where the right wing is committed to your suffering or destruction while the moderate parties can take your vote for granted and ignore your needs once elected.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Progressive, cosmopolitan, and multicultural cities play a significant role in shaping an individual’s reactionary politics, just as one’s religion or ethnicity does. If only 20% of the cities residents are homophobic, the city is still responsible for the 20% having that view.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

Typically, the expansion of roads and the prioritization of car-centric infrastructure can be indicative of budget cuts. This approach tends to be inefficient in terms of resource allocation, leading to potential reductions in funding for public transit and general services as a consequence.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 26/06/2023

Rent control's major problem is that both benefits and harms are very drastic. One's stance on rent control often hinges on whether they believe migrants should have equal or fewer rights than natives in a housing shortage market.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 25/06/2023

When it comes to addressing the housing shortage, developers will undoubtedly play a crucial role. However, the current situation highlights that Indian developers, often backed by political connections, tend to exhibit NIMBY tendencies, exacerbating the housing shortage issue.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/06/2023

...instead the insistence of all policymakers is that Americans prefer to live in the suburbs but the reality of real-estate prices is that living in walkable urban neighborhoods is prohibitively expensive because there's so much demand. Worst possible combo.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/06/2023

I think if Americans *really* hated living in dense, walkable, transit-prioritized neighborhoods, that would kinda suck but at least I'd be able to cheaply live in the few neighborhoods where this lifestyle is possible because few others wanted to...

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 24/06/2023

The sheer ignorance in this response is something a very small section of Hindi speakers can afford to have. Imagine being this clueless of your privilege within a country. There are entire Bollywood caricatures built on how Biharis,how Bengali’s or how South Indian’s speak & their entire mannerism

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 24/06/2023

Free transit is a beneficial policy aiding financially challenged individuals, enabling access to public transportation. While suitable for poor countries like India, it may not be as relevant in wealthier Western or Asian countries.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 24/06/2023

We choose not to mock Modi's English not solely to spare his feelings, but because there are many people who are sincerely striving to learn and communicate in the language, regardless of their diverse backgrounds.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 23/06/2023

Bangalore free bus rides for women discourse is so polarized. That it barely gets talked about that migrant women and women lacking documentation are excluded. The city refused to use its entire fleet.

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Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social · 23/06/2023

Everyone using this app should make a promise not to start or amplify any kind of STEM vs Humanities discourse.

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