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Seattle Ecomodernist Society's avatar

the malthusian nature preachers incite culture wars against normal people over rational preferences like cooking with gas or drinking from plastic straws, in their heroic fantasy this counts as saving the planet. meanwhile they obstruct energy, transport, industrial food, and cloud technology that will actually conserve habitat. not unlike another democratic party constituency the intersectional peacocks who incite culture wars against normal people who simply get along instead of joining ritual praise of and legalizing crimes by chosen 'victim identities'. meanwhile the hip peacocks are laisse faire or protectionist when it comes to distributing technical frontier jobs outside metropolitan areas, and hostile to family and student discipline -- both of which are essential to reskill the real victims of the real problem - technical advance which always begets creative destruction. if you learn social development you have less time for inventing enemies

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John Droz jr.'s avatar

Bob: Good job on this summary. The lawsuit decision is also a fascinating read. The Left lawyers are desperately pushing nonsense. For example, the verdict by the judges says: "Berkeley’s main contention is that its Ordinance doesn’t regulate 'energy use' because it bans natural gas rather than prescribes a 'quantity of energy.' While Berkeley concedes that a prohibition on natural gas infrastructure reduces the energy consumed by natural gas appliances in new buildings to zero, it argues that 'zero' is not a quantity, so the Ordinance is not an energy use regulation."

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