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You are making a classic straw man argument of the form: ”I shall take the thing and crank it up to the max & insist that only instantaneous change happen to sh
by pja 3y ago
You are making a classic straw man argument of the form: ”I shall take the thing and crank it up to the max & insist that only instantaneous change happen to show how ludicrous that would be”.
This is a wildly disingenuous argument! Incremental change is possible. Partial change is possible.
- bluescrn 3y agoIncreasingly popular slogans like ‘Just Stop Oil’ or ‘Fuck Cars’, or talk of imminent human extinction, don’t seem to be calls for incremental change, though.
- sclarisse 3y agoI recall a billboard in New York asking us to ban cars and “reforest” all the roads, which would likewise seem to present hazards to local cycling