The cost of renewable energy has cratered and investment in it has soared, but global carbon emissions are still on the rise. Jeffrey Ball writes that realizing today’s promises of net-zero emissions by mid-century will require more than cleaner technologies and bigger checks.
“The enormous cost of the war, and the losses that Afghans bore and continue to bear, gave America a moral responsibility to ensure a better outcome. This is about more than sunk costs. Biden argued that America went into Afghanistan for counterterrorism purposes (to rout al-Qaida) and not for nation-building, and that the conflict in Afghanistan was ‘another country’s civil war.’ But that elides American responsibility for outcomes in Afghanistan,” argues Madiha Afzal.
Continued development of artificial intelligence is predicated on two pillars: technologies and human capital availability. Samar Fatima, Gregory Dawson, Kevin Desouza, and James Denford explore the people dimension of this development, especially around the skills gap and attainment.
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