Sunday Quick Cuts: ManFlu Edition

Your correspondent has gone viral. Not in a good way.

Welcome back to Wicked Problems. Probably the only climate tech show and newsletter that would prefer to be less viral. And while we’re grateful for being quoted by multimedia polymath Colin Murphy in his Irish Sunday Independent column today about how to fix climate and climate tech narratives, we mean more literally than we like.

We won’t bore you with details but we’re getting there - and explain why today will be quite short. And why we’re grateful to have interviewed enough guests for the show for those episodes to already be in queue.

But for today we offer, with the assistance of some kindly elves who sent suggestions, an abbreviated version of some things you might want to check out:

1. Kate Mackenzie: Oil Consolidation Is Decline, Not Strength (HeatMap)

Mackenzie is a seasoned observer of the energy industry, so is better able than most to read the auguries of the $120 billion in M&A announced by Exxon and Chevron. Her take - these deals are about positioning those combined co…