"I push back on doomism because I don’t think it’s justified by the science, and I think it potentially leads us down a path of inaction,” said Mann during a talk last Thursday at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
“And there are bad actors today who are fanning the flames of climate doomism because they understand that it takes those who are most likely to be on the front lines, advocating for change, and pushes them to the sidelines, which is where polluters and petrostates want them.”
I push back on doomism because I don’t think it’s justified by the science, and I think it potentially leads us down a path of inaction.
I’m pretty sure shareholder primacy, regulatory capture and dominance hierarchy are what are leading us down a plan of inaction. The doomers I know of still recycle out of habit.
Maybe he’s got a plan to convince billionaires to stop fixating on number go up.