Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas. What article is saying: - "go back to caves, don't buy anything, it is stupid but you should believe in that

Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas. What article is saying: - "go back to caves, don't buy anything, it is stupid but you should believe in that". This is not people want. I used to live in a country tried to build communism. I do understand and support clean energy, ecology. But this kind of calls remind of ideology over natural order of things. People will always want to live in a warm house during winter, surround themself with comfort etc. Only science and technology can bring us to the end goal of 100% clean , renewable everything. Some examples: Why do we need all this rockets, going to space, mars, lets solve problems on earth first: - with this mind set no boom of Solar Energy, since it's been designed for space - no closed-cycle tech also developed for space first - even CO2 from air was developed for space and military goals first Creating tremendously complex goals of going to the space, other planets triggered lots of tech with autonomy and limited resources in mind. Another example, electric cars. Hey lets reduce consumption of cars 50%: - People will keep using old, inefficient cars, that produce more pollution, - Investors will invest less money to EV, so slower transition, less charging infrastructure - No cheap EV in a forceable future - No cheap battery storages to keep solar, wind energy Keeping demand naturally as it is pushed gasoline car to museums by 2030-35. That itself will cut humongous amount of co2. So that we can focus on producing more clean energy for more efficient EV's. Another example, lets limit to heating to 60f (15c) and cut the emission from heating: - Consumption is high, pricing for keeping the house warm jumped? Good, people will install geothermal, solar etc. As you can see consumption triggers progress and provide with playground for better tech. All you need to provide restrictions in the areas like plastic etc. Economy will find it's way.