This is such a strange essay. It's on the front page of the NYT, which I continue to read every morning--out of routine, because it's still the entry portal to "What the left thinks," and because at times--not always--its reporting is superb. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/opinion/hopeless-covid-climate.html?smid=tw-share …
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Imagine these ppl come to power, no more fusion reactor research, no particle accelerator, no landing rockets, just Amish land with solar panels stuck at whatever efficiency they got to before back to the land cult cut r&d expenditure.
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It is. The whole essay is strange, as I said.
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It's the standard Rousseau state-of-nature cliché. What's dismaying is that neither he nor the editor of the opinion page realizes this.
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There's a bucolic fantasy of right around 1600 in Europe embedded in the environmentalist's imagination, that that is somehow the ideal way to live. This of course forgets all the terrible suffering that came with it that we've overcome in the last four hundred years.
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