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People who want climate action like the word “massive” way too much 🧐. As in “massive program”, “massive reductions”, “massive scale.” And many clearly salivate at the idea of massive state capacity and bureaucratopia. That word needs to be tabooed.
These days, I tune out anytime anyone talks “massive” with a glint of religious fervor. I think 90% of the time it’s an unacknowledged control fantasy under a cosmetic layer of climate concern. Most have never done any math to calibrate their sense of “massive.”
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Most historic things that look “massive” in hindsight tend to be pre-existing network effects that had fuel poured on them for radical acceleration. This is what WW2 mobilization actually was. 20 years of Detroit boom, briefly interrupted by depression, then fuel poured on
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I tend to think opposite. I doubt if they were more “moderate” they would get anything anywhere done. They would drawn in the sea of nonsense surrounding public life these days.
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Indeed, and this also shows just how many people are used to using mostly scale as a value metric. Betrays a certain lack of imagination, if not by them then by the group they pander to.