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.
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The more you use the word ‘massive’, the less likely even modest things are to happen.
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And I’m more pro-strong-state and pro-bureaucracy than most.
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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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