Good article Mentor! Nice to make your point of view more explicit. I find that I agree with at least 80% of your axioms and your positions. One thing I wonder is how to have more people come around to this way of viewing the world:
* Energy use is wealth.
* Climate change is real, and I’m not that worried about it. Solar energy is eating the world, and most climate changes can be solved with technology. People dying of climate/weather events has been going down over time. But it is an engineering problem, not an existential crisis. The world will go green because it is cheaper (soon), and if we want to offset our environmental impact during the 10-20 years it will take to go from fossil to green, we should inject SO2 into the stratosphere immediately.
* We should institute a negative income tax for low incomes.
What do you think? Especially in the Netherlands there is a lot of panic around climate change.
I struggle with that. The core of it is that most people don't take the time to understand how things work. In the past we solved that with elites: let some smart people figure it out so the rest can just live. But that system broke down because the elites lost the trust of the people.
So now people who think they know what is right, do things that make no sense even for their goals. Things like the focus of extinction rebellion in the Netherlands. They understand so little about how stocks work that they think that it matters if ING no longer funds oil companies. Complete ignorance.
We do get to vote again soon, which is something I guess. Let me know if yo figure it out.
Good article Mentor! Nice to make your point of view more explicit. I find that I agree with at least 80% of your axioms and your positions. One thing I wonder is how to have more people come around to this way of viewing the world:
* Energy use is wealth.
* Climate change is real, and I’m not that worried about it. Solar energy is eating the world, and most climate changes can be solved with technology. People dying of climate/weather events has been going down over time. But it is an engineering problem, not an existential crisis. The world will go green because it is cheaper (soon), and if we want to offset our environmental impact during the 10-20 years it will take to go from fossil to green, we should inject SO2 into the stratosphere immediately.
* We should institute a negative income tax for low incomes.
What do you think? Especially in the Netherlands there is a lot of panic around climate change.
I struggle with that. The core of it is that most people don't take the time to understand how things work. In the past we solved that with elites: let some smart people figure it out so the rest can just live. But that system broke down because the elites lost the trust of the people.
So now people who think they know what is right, do things that make no sense even for their goals. Things like the focus of extinction rebellion in the Netherlands. They understand so little about how stocks work that they think that it matters if ING no longer funds oil companies. Complete ignorance.
We do get to vote again soon, which is something I guess. Let me know if yo figure it out.