A lot of the anti-Franzen reaction seems based on the following assumption: "How dare he presume to think about the climate crisis differently than I think he should. I'm an expert, damn it, and I want complete control over what people say about it."
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Replying to @DamonLinker
Some people, yeah. But isn’t that re NY’er length essay a reasonable objection? That a writer opining on, arguably, the single most important issue in the world today ought to, given this venue, bring some level of expertise to the matter?
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Replying to @yeselson
Most of what I'm seeing isn't on the order of "here is a fact he got wrong." It's an objection to the uses to which he puts the facts. They don't like the way he describes and responds to the reality of climate change. So much of it strikes me as peevish upholding of authority.
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Franzen's earlier climate piece was very widely criticized by experts on factual and logical grounds. See here and especially links in piece: https://grist.org/living/jonathan-franzen-is-confused-about-climate-change-but-then-lots-of-people-are/ …
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