I'm assuming that, like many anti-environmentalists, you're using shrill activists like Greta Thunberg as a proxy for environmentalism as a whole. This is called "nutpicking" and is a dishonest rhetorical strategy. Greta doesn't speak for anybody but herself -- I personally think she's an embarrassment to the climate change movement (esp…
I'm assuming that, like many anti-environmentalists, you're using shrill activists like Greta Thunberg as a proxy for environmentalism as a whole. This is called "nutpicking" and is a dishonest rhetorical strategy. Greta doesn't speak for anybody but herself -- I personally think she's an embarrassment to the climate change movement (especially after her recent anti-Israel statements).
I hope you realize that there are thousands of quantitative environmental scientists around the world and that climate change, for example, is backed by reams of hard data. I suggest you try to separate the activists from the science itself.
The data are clear: the planet is warming rapidly due to burning fossil fuels. There are trillions of dollars to be made by the transition to a low-carbon economy. Would you rather China make all that money or the US?
I hope the answer is clear. Partisan ideologues like Shellenberger are only getting in the way. (That said, his work on the "Twitter Files" was excellent.)
I'm assuming that, like many anti-environmentalists, you're using shrill activists like Greta Thunberg as a proxy for environmentalism as a whole. This is called "nutpicking" and is a dishonest rhetorical strategy. Greta doesn't speak for anybody but herself -- I personally think she's an embarrassment to the climate change movement (especially after her recent anti-Israel statements).
I hope you realize that there are thousands of quantitative environmental scientists around the world and that climate change, for example, is backed by reams of hard data. I suggest you try to separate the activists from the science itself.
The data are clear: the planet is warming rapidly due to burning fossil fuels. There are trillions of dollars to be made by the transition to a low-carbon economy. Would you rather China make all that money or the US?
I hope the answer is clear. Partisan ideologues like Shellenberger are only getting in the way. (That said, his work on the "Twitter Files" was excellent.)