We have this overall sense that "markdown is eating the world" in the sense that it is becoming a more and more ubiquitous and powerful format. What i would term "markdown plus" i.e. markdown plus extensions like frontmatter, wikilinks, typed backtick blocks you have something really pretty expressive - and add MDX and you have full JS(X) components.
At least, for reasonably small use cases (think under a 1000 items), this makes a collection of markdown files a great basis for a whole bunch of use cases from a document database to a PKM etc.
I take the point and perhaps one could think about what is useful to the "middle ground" of the uninitiated e.g. the policy-makers looking for some guidance, the journalists trying to make sense of the claims and counter-claims.
What we're trying to do here is set out the claims clearly (and atomically) and evaluate them in as transparent and honest a manner as possible. So far I've not seen this a lot on the internet despite the huge amount of material on this topic.
> It showed how one should do a systems analysis for a country to understand how one can achieve the change required. I was astonished when I talked to several of the leading people responsible for energy policy in several political parties in my country, to find they really had no clue about what they where doing on a systems level.
Massive +1. And i agree that perhaps "reusing" the book would be useful. E.g. take the key factual approach and update analyses for particular technologies and then plug those together - which to some extent is what the pathway calculator did which is why it is worth trying to get the source for that https://github.com/life-itself/climate/issues/2
Thanks Niall - updating the book is exactly what we are hoping to do and still thinking the best form for that. Re that tool i've been in correspondence with one of the other creators re trying to understand the source code etc - see https://github.com/life-itself/climate/issues/2