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> Edgington, who began his career researching climate science before eventually landing in crypto, understood where his daughter was coming from. “Rightly or wr
by quantified 4y ago
> Edgington, who began his career researching climate science before eventually landing in crypto, understood where his daughter was coming from. “Rightly or wrongly, she'd absorbed a very toxic environmental narrative,” he said. “I mean, it's kind of hard to defend ‘stickers for grownups’ that emit, by some estimates, a megaton of [carbon dioxide] a week.”
- latchkey 4y agoOn a personal note, Ben is a really really nice and smart guy. I have a huge amount of respect for him.
- quantified 4y agoWe're all complex, multidimensional people. He's probably a really good parent. But "toxic environmental narrative"?
- proto-n 4y agoI think someone can be toxic and at the same time be right about what they say
- quantified 4y agoIs the environmental narrative toxic in that it poisons our minds, or that the enviroment itself is being poisoned? Totally agree with your point. Our politics and society don't do a good job with that.