We’re not grading on a curve, and simply having reserves doesn’t obligate us to burn them.
You can’t call yourself a “leader” on the climate when you’re routinely winning “Fossil of the Day” awards during international climate talks. That’s not a champion of the climate, it’s a villain.
Being the best of a list of villains (and we’re not even that) doesn’t make you the good guy. We’re burning the world. We’re the bad guys. The only area we’ve been leaders is in obstruction of progress, though we often have to fight for this title with the US.
Sure there is good and evil in all of us, but the point of living in a global society is to integrate the feedback received from others and hopefully become less evil in whatever we have done bad in.
Ignoring the feedback is at the very least behaving like the villain - if we want to shy away from ascribing such potentially reductive labels.
We’re not grading on a curve, and simply having reserves doesn’t obligate us to burn them.
You can’t call yourself a “leader” on the climate when you’re routinely winning “Fossil of the Day” awards during international climate talks. That’s not a champion of the climate, it’s a villain.
Being the best of a list of villains (and we’re not even that) doesn’t make you the good guy. We’re burning the world. We’re the bad guys. The only area we’ve been leaders is in obstruction of progress, though we often have to fight for this title with the US.
Villains belong in stories; real life is shades of gray.
There’s no grey in the science. We’re burning the world, and attempts to sound enlightened with platitudes doesn’t change that.
Sure there is good and evil in all of us, but the point of living in a global society is to integrate the feedback received from others and hopefully become less evil in whatever we have done bad in.
Ignoring the feedback is at the very least behaving like the villain - if we want to shy away from ascribing such potentially reductive labels.