William Robertson
Recent Musings
Green New Deal by Stealth
What’s in a name? That which we call a rollout of shovel-ready clean tech infrastructure projects by any other name would still decarbonize the economy. A “Green New Deal” is not going to pass Congress anytime soon. Yet despite this, Biden is poised to bring on an unprecedented clean tech policy revolution that would far…
Hope in the Horn of Africa
Ethiopia’s long-benighted opposition dares to dream of a democratic Ethiopia. These days, optimists rarely get the opportunity to say “I told you so.” Yet the zeal with which Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s 41-year-old Prime Minister has attacked his country’s political and economic crises caught many by surprise. Almost overnight, he became the most popular politician in a country of 100 million in the strategically vital Horn…
The Kangaroo and the Dragon: The Asia-Pacific Energy Market’s New Animal Spirits
China’s economic rise has been great for Australia. The resource-rich nation has gladly fed China’s hunger for cheap energy and industrial materials. Since China’s accession to the WTO in 2001, Australian household incomes nearly tripled while the population of the country surged. Yet all is not well in the land of Oz. Since 2016 Australia,…
Hello, I’m Will.
Greetings, I’m Will. Previously a magazine and newspaper editor and researcher, I spend my spare time reading — and usually abandoning — history tomes.
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