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John Patrick Ryan

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Dec 31, 2025

My (minor) role in the start of the Anti-Apartheid Movement’s Divestiture Campaign

Introduction

John Patrick Ryan

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Nov 24, 2022

An Insufficient Decade

We are entering a decade of insufficiency. We’ll at once feel like we’re making insufficient progress on the climate problem and…

John Patrick Ryan

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Oct 20, 2022

Valuing Avoidance of Climate Tipping Points

This piece originally appeared in The Impact, 4th May, 2021

Valuing Avoidance of Climate Tipping Points

John Patrick Ryan

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Oct 20, 2022

Oil execs are talking about life after oil. Should we believe them?

Originally published in The Impact, 18th May, 2021

Oil execs are talking about life after oil. Should we believe them?

John Patrick Ryan

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Oct 20, 2022

A key week in the death of oil

Originally published in The Impact; 2nd June 2021

A key week in the death of oil

John Patrick Ryan

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Nov 4, 2020

Life after a caustic election

It’s the day after the 2020 election as I write this. It looks as though Joe Biden will win enough states to win 270+ Electoral College…

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The Startup

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John Patrick Ryan

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Apr 15, 2020

Conferences after COVID

Nobody, lying on their deathbed, ever said: “I wish I’d attended more conferences”

Conferences after COVID

John Patrick Ryan

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Feb 25, 2020

Musings on Malthus

“The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape…

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Stories from the Decentralized Web

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John Patrick Ryan

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Jan 7, 2020

Decentralizing: ending walled gardens

Beyond the walled garden

Decentralizing: ending walled gardens

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The Startup

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John Patrick Ryan

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Dec 3, 2019

How hard could this be?

How hard, how difficult, how expensive will it be to convert most, nearly all, of the world’s energy consumption from fossil fuels to…

John Patrick Ryan

John Patrick Ryan

Tech executive and strategy consultant. Writing and thinking about long term global economic trends. Strategy in cases where the science remains uncertain.

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