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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Dec 2018

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Jonathan Chait

    I think the mistake here is to see climate is merely a "technocratic challenge" and not realize it is also a political one (if it were merely technocratic, we'd have started on it in the 1980s and would be in a far less dangerous position now).https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1076526931531702272 …

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    I will have to spell it out in more detail in a piece. The process described in this story does not strike me as conducive to grappling in a remotely serious way with the technocratic challenges inherent in this goal.
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      1. Dan ☭‏ @AntonioSlamsci 22 Dec 2018
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        wow what kind of useless clown would make a mistake like that oh

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      2. Ed Cara‏Verified account @EdCara4 22 Dec 2018
        Replying to @podcastrespectr @HeerJeet

        Is that not a political consideration???

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      2. Joe Ro‏ @joero3 22 Dec 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I am not a Chait hater at all. But boy did he miss by a mile on this one.

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      3. twintergalactic‏ @twintergalactic 22 Dec 2018
        Replying to @joero3 @HeerJeet

        Yeah, same. I’m generally Ok with him compared to most of what I see on here but this was terrible.

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      1. Andrew Loewen‏ @andrewloewen 22 Dec 2018
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        Chait is a handsomely paid fool.

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      1. Cute Username‏ @UserGoogol 22 Dec 2018
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        I mean, a big part of the problem is that the Republican party is fundamentally anti-expertise, so "mere technocratic issues" are political purely on that basis. (Although the GOP wasn't quite *as* anti-expertise in the 80s.)

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      1. Michael Mathog‏ @mmathog 22 Dec 2018
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        "...mistake here is to see that [insert social policy challenge here] is [at all] a "technocratic challenge" and not realize it is [entirely] a political one..." FTFY.

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      1. gassyLarry‏ @Gassy_Larry 22 Dec 2018
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        Also a moral challenge - northern govts legacies of colonialism, and (incl China) locking developing countries into fossil-fuel pathways for profit, often while refusing to adequately fund #publictransit or #renewableenergy at home

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      1. Donald O. Daniels‏ @DonaldODaniels1 22 Dec 2018
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        Very true, but that just puts more emphasis on getting message right, and more importantly, getting all vested groups at the table and moving in right direction. The majority of public will come around. Four years of poor US leadership has turned this into crisis mode.

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