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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 14 Oct 2017

    On the environment, it’s not about left vs. right. It’s upwingers vs. downwingers. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/12/two_new_books_change_the_left_right_paradigm_on_environmental_policy.html?wpsrc=sh_all_mob_tw_top … via @slate

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      2. Darren Doesn't Write Much‏ @Darren_B_Lane 14 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Slate

        Many of the views from US right are neither up nor down but are based on 6K yo Earth that Jesus will return to and rapture his followers...

        1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
      3. Darren Doesn't Write Much‏ @Darren_B_Lane 14 Oct 2017
        Replying to @Darren_B_Lane @sapinker @Slate

        Any analysis that lumps religious right w/ free market, small govt, pro liberty, Austrian econ crowd gets a muddy picture indeed.

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      1. Paul Sand‏ @punsalad 14 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Slate

        Excellent, except I wish you'd tossed in @vpostrel 's 1998 classic "The Future and its Enemies" http://amzn.to/2wUybOK 

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      1. Dr. Malini Nair‏ @maliniw90th 14 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Slate

        should get this to read!

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      2. John F‏ @John_Fillion 14 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Slate

        Finally some truth. We are making the world better not worse though technology. The world's environmental status is continually improving.

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      3. Mike Bareja‏ @mikebex 14 Oct 2017
        Replying to @John_Fillion @sapinker @Slate

        Manifestly false.

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      2. Abnormally Alex‏ @FalexSymbol 14 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Slate

        Excellent read - I've always been convinced that technology and progress can (and already have) solve our most pressing problems

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      4. Abnormally Alex‏ @FalexSymbol 14 Oct 2017
        Replying to @pl0bberjot @sapinker @Slate

        Absolutely. Progress (for most) means those problems have evolved from existential ones like not being eaten, to quality of life issues.

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      1. Angela Guyton‏ @A_Guyton 20 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Slate

        Since they're so similar I just went ahead and ordered the one that said "porn" in the title

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      1. alina stefanescu‏ @aliner 19 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @tcdurant @Slate

        Yup.

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      1. All County Building Supply & Maintenance Corpse‏ @Sandwichman_eh 14 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Slate

        And so, we descend from "Great Chain of Being" to temporalized Great Chain to quantified, temporalized Great Chain. Nothing changes. Growth replaces Universal Progress, which replaced Order & the rich get even richer & the poor are told to be grateful for what little they've got.

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      1. TheGodMoloch‏ @Kthnxbai9000 14 Oct 2017
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        We have always been at war with the downwingers.

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      1. Sam LaHood‏ @SamuelLaHood 14 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Slate

        This is "climate deniers" now flying under the flag of "down wingers" Only real debate is 10 minutes of @BillNye & @TuckerCarlson. #nodebate

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      1. Zero Stumping‏ @ZeroStumping 14 Oct 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Slate

        To save the environment you need 2 stop all immigration. Sierra Club had that position until a globalist gave them a $100mm to shut up.

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