Our response to covid has a lot of bad implications for the fight against climate change, a far tougher collective action problem. Among the worst is the exposure of "trust the science" as a kind of secular faith, not a genuine defense of scientific thinking. This took many forms
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Realistically, though, it's time to start thinking harder about climate mitigation and be more honest in communicating the inevitability of what is coming. Say goodbye to Miami and hello to Canadian beach vacations. Maybe fund some weird science projects at large scale.
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Space mirror, ocean seeding, reforestation, mass electrification, setting off a volcano or two—we should go to town. Humanity can at least go out with a bang, and we have a much better shot at solutions that involve building things than ones that require restraining ourselves
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Probably a good idea to leave a note on the Moon explaining what we tried, unless we're have some plan to use that as planetary sunscreen
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Like I mean, that just may be impossible when you have Berenson et al running straight into any lane of sanity you create and bad faithing all over it until it’s tainted by associated. And incentives are aligned for more and more of them
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Just thinking now, I guess maybe my only hope would be a single great man/woman with that rare charisma and drive that they can change history. We need a hero. That sucks. On so many levels.
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The various public health messaging on masks demonstrated that experts subordinate "science" to political goals. The changes were not driven by evidence, but by political agendas.
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It's a podcast, Henry. It's not going to happen
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