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A bit puzzled about why I'm so strongly reminded of McPhee. But I think what McPhee and the thread writer share is that both are strongly and genuinely engaged at the level of details, showing us insightfully what's actually going on, rather than merely canned narratives.
I found myself surprised at how irritated I was by the many replies saying "Nuclear!" They're not wrong, they're just boring & canned compared to the original thread, which is full of insight & detail, winning "the war against cliche"; that's also one of McPhee's great gifts
The original author is anti nuclear, though, and the community that protests the coal plants is the same that pushes policy towards shutting down nuclear plants. Probably the same people in the tree houses have chained themselves to railway tracks to demonstrate nuclear waste.
So the people complaining are actually the people forcing it to happen.
Probably because McPhee (and Emily Dickinson!) loved the @MerriamWebster dictionary: http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary
http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/blog/2014/12/turning-the-page/ …
The response of something like "you don't have to choose between cholera and pest" was very good. Believe the future will be decentralized & power generation is an obvious way that will happen, microgrids everywhere. Giant hyper centralized infrastructure makes points of failure.
I wonder if boring repetition of a good cliche is valuable in a social sense, in that it starts to stick in people's minds when they wouldn't otherwise think of it... would be neat if Twitter had a switch like "only show me surprising things"!
True, but the OP's rejoinders to the "But Nuclear!" people were even more boring and canned IMO.
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As I grew up my convictions slowly faded, and I've done literally nothing.
