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Writing on the stumbling energy transition.

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“Tackling the climate and air pollution crises requires curbing all motorised transport, particularly private cars, as quickly as possible. Focusing solely on electric vehicles is slowing down the race to zero emissions.”

https://theconversation.com/cycling-is-ten-times-more-important-than-electric-cars-for-reaching-net-zero-cities-157163

“The political theorist Patrick J. Deneen has argued that ideology always fails because once its inherent “falsehoods become more evident, the gap grows between what the ideology claims and the lived experience of human beings under its domain”. Those currently scurrying away from X are effectively retreating from the battlefield of ideas envisaged by John Milton in his Areopagitica (1644) in which Truth and Falsehood are seen as antagonists. “Let her and Falsehood grapple,” he wrote, “who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?””

https://unherd.com/2024/11/i-was-the-target-of-guardian-misinformation/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups%5B0%5D=18743&tl_period_type=3&utm_source=UnHerd+Today&utm_campaign=d14a677568-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_11_22_10_54&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_79fd0df946-d14a677568-34804549

Why can’t we have these in the U.S.?

Que chido nostr:note14xs72h2zt3tvaqxpx0puznd6nu7633ecavjr5cl932qu0eksynys766rne

Perpetual builder mindset is what makes Bitcoiners so great.

“What menaces democratic society in this age is not a simple collapse of order but a tyranny of mediocrity, a standardization of mind and spirit and condition.”

-Alexis de Tocqueville