My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder

So good to see some actual Startup News on here. I miss the old days of this site when things were more optimistic and less click-bait.

in what sense is it getting worse? While there may be local minima, I'd argue that its the best its ever been. News has always been pessimistic because negative emotions are easier to trigger to drive attention which pays the bills.

We've already passed the 1.5 Degree Celsius limit on global warming. That alone has catastrophic consequences.

Yet, the production of fossil fuels remains near record levels, and producers are aiming to scale up, as opposed to scale down. Political discourse on this topic often amounts to "but my expenses are already too high."

For many people, this is still an abstract and slow moving problem. Yet, it is a very real problem with dire consequences. (That are somehow easy to ignore!)

Is the world getting worse?

In some ways, it's getting better.

Yet, we seem doomed to cause so much destruction. It's gonna be bad. Very bad. But not right away (for many of us).

https://www.sei.org/publications/production-gap-report-2023/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/02/0...