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This is why pushback against climate change policies is, I believe, a healthy thing. Yes, protecting the environment is super important, but time and time again
by coolso 5y ago
This is why pushback against climate change policies is, I believe, a healthy thing. Yes, protecting the environment is super important, but time and time again we are told to trust the science, trust the experts, everything is going to go exactly as planned. And time and time again, it turns out the experts didn't account for this, or for that, or were just flat out wrong, and then everyone pays for the "oops".
We see this with everything: social policy, monetary policy, tax policy, etc.
I think a public online resource that documents instances like this, where the experts, or the government, told us X, but it ended up being Y, would be a really powerful tool to fight back against folks who treat science like an infallible religion.
- visarga 5y agoYou can't have discovery without taking risks, and you can't generalize one problem to the other problems. Keeping the status quo has its own cost.
- octoberfranklin 5y ago> a really powerful tool to fight back against folks who treat science like an infallible religion. The only tool needed for that is a really simple one: a bumper sticker that says "when you mix science and politics you get politics". People who can't grok that are not going to come around.
- croes 5y ago>This is why pushback against climate change policies is, I believe, a healthy thing. No, it's not. In the past we did next to nothing and we now see the consequences. We may fail if we try, but we are guaranteed to fail if we don't. And science is like democracy, it's not perfect sometimes even bad, but it's still the best we have. Everything else is worse.
- goodpoint 5y ago> Yes, protecting the environment is super important, but time and time again we are told to trust the science What's the alternative? Trust big oil companies instead?