There is a sophisticated version of that argument - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rhetoric_of_Reaction … - that ‘it’s all futile’ is a common reactionary trope, and that there may be specific efforts being mounted to propagandize it. Not sure that is true, but I think, from quote, it’s where Mann’s heading.
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Counterproductive is not the same critique as factually wrong. One is scientific, the other is inherently political.
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There are huge action opportunities. They may or may not be enough to sustain civilization and avert global conflicts. Inaction due to significant probability of failure is despicable.
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Do you not think the hypothesis of hopelessness is being amplified by the same people who funded denialism?
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Please tell me that’s sarcasm. Because optimism is not the antithesis of fatalism.
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I don't understand this point. Perhaps I never will!
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Believing that it’s too late and nothing can be done so we shouldn’t change anything is just as bad as not doing anything because you don’t believe there’s anything wrong. Either way there is no action to prevent the worst possible outcomes—which we are nowhere near experiencing.
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