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Weird attack on Jordan Peterson in this piece. The quote from him about being concerned about solutions that work "by impoverishing poor people, by raising ener
by bodiekane 3y ago
Weird attack on Jordan Peterson in this piece. The quote from him about being concerned about solutions that work "by impoverishing poor people, by raising energy prices and food prices" is a standard part of the discourse among liberal and progressive climate advocates. Lots of people on the far left are very vocal about policy changes which place a burden on people in poverty or on developing countries.
I point this out just to try to resist this "us vs them" mentality and divisiveness that I see growing in many places. One can advocate for addressing climate change, while still being worried about the impacts of policy changes to the most vulnerable. There's a complex, overlapping set of issues here that one could prioritize differently without there being a stark "good guys" and "bad guys" breakdown.
(My own view is that we need very aggressive changes to minimize carbon pollution and also that it's reasonable for rich countries to pay a larger share for those changes than poor countries)
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