Vaclav Smil is a no-nonsense guy and a person who doesn't need to believe in fairy tales to keep plowing ahead every morning The sad thing is that back in the

Vaclav Smil is a no-nonsense guy and a person who doesn't need to believe in fairy tales to keep plowing ahead every morning The sad thing is that back in the 80s and 90s fairy tales were about improving one's quality of life and the societal one. Dreams of Mustangs and Corvettes and Ferraris. Nowadays people consider stasis a victory. As long as it's green stasis (it won't be). We can't go on like this, or people are gonna off themselves in mass way before global warming even becomes a moderate threat to their quality of life. We need to crank everything up at least to give them some relief from the lockdowns+inflation back to back trauma.