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If anyone wonders why technological innovation with green tech often runs into roadblocks, it's because we can't go 10m without brining identity politics into t
by exabrial 3y ago
If anyone wonders why technological innovation with green tech often runs into roadblocks, it's because we can't go 10m without brining identity politics into the discussion. The bottom paragraph has absolutely nothing to do with supercritical c02 turbines, but instantly turns it into a red vs blue issue.
I'm on the side of efficiency, note vote harvesting, and it doesn't need to part of the discussion; handle it elsewhere.
- KennyBlanken 3y agoIt runs into roadblocks because an overpowered minority faction refuses to support policy and funding decision-making using evidence-based scientific consensus, and given the new speaker is a political extremist who has declared all his decision-making is based on a fictional book, is known to be a creationist and climate-change denier, and comes from a party that almost as a matter of policy opposes virtually all evidence-based science when it comes to policy...yeah, I think it's relevant to mention it. Claiming disagreements are "just identity politics" is a way of shifting an argument from factual debate to "you don't like me because I don't agree with you."
- klyrs 3y agoThe article didn't brine identity politics at all. I'll agree that the swerve into politics was weird, especially since they didn't tie it in to the article at all (except, perhaps, a reach for a pun involving "power"). Not all politics is identity politics, if words have any meaning.