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Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Politics Creeps In

Was listening to a podcast about human progress, and someone defended the "let's piss off the public" antics of "Extinction Rebellion," I couldn't help but remember this from p. 450 here:

But if your first, second, and third priorities aren’t winning elections, then you are wasting your time.

If looking for a silver lining in the failures of last November, you might like this from The Breakthrough Institute: Nominee Chris Wright Offers Much-Needed Reset on Climate Politics

OTOH (and obviously this is just one of dozens of examples), I have to say "Bravo" to all the Climate Doomers and other Lefties who spent their time pissing people off instead of working to actually, you know, win:

[H]e's directing kind of the whole of his government, the the agencies, you know, energy energy department, interior department, the environmental regulators, to kind of come up with ways that they can accelerate the build out of largely fossil fuel energy and energy sources and energy processing. So that's pipelines, refineries, new oil and gas projects, and stuff like that. He's really trying to try to put the whole weight of government behind this kind of energy expansion based on fossil fuels.

(Another example of environmentalists screwing everyone by making the perfect the enemy of the better.)

And as always, thanks to the Green Party for giving us oilman George W Bush over Al Gore. And then, seeing their "success" in 2000, they gave us The Orange Guy in 2016. It also snuck into my knowledge that the Green Party cost our local Democrat the House seat this past November. 

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