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...enthusiast, said that Grosz’ studies are useful in many disciplines. “Having computers is helpful, but they can get in the way,” he said, adding that in the economy, wasted seconds can cause thousands of dollars in losses. Grosz said that a movement to improve systems will be led, at least in part, by those who buy them. “It’s time for all of you to take back control,” she said. “Insist on better systems...
...course of an average day—from leaving lights on in empty rooms to discarding untouched food and unused napkins. Common sense, consideration, and simple decency all argue against such activities; and indeed, those qualities could do well to serve the greater ends of not only the environmental movement but other social causes also. Unfortunately, the modern university and contemporary progressives care little for inculcating those values when they can formulate their own tendentious morals out of narrow ideologies...
...more inspirational apostles of the environmental movement like to place the problem of climate change in the same historical file as pivotal historical moments like the promotion of democracy at the American Revolution, the invention of a new economy at the Industrial Revolution, or the expansion of the franchise during the suffrage movement. The comparison is legitimate: Confronting the vast ecological problems we have already occasioned on ourselves and simultaneously preventing them from getting any worse is, if anything, of even greater historical import than any of these examples...
...revolutions invariably involve some people giving up on what they strongly believe, which usually involves getting badly hurt. The American Revolution hurt loyalists; the Industrial Revolution hurt artisans; the suffrage movement hurt those with a strong attachment to male hegemony. In each case, the social decision selected progress of the whole at the expense of a dislocation of the part. This, after all, is what a claim to progress implies: in some cases, obstacles to change must be steamrolled...
...People haven’t yet been honest about this when talking climate change. The environmental movement remains a carefully-positioned velvet revolution in which nobody will be hurt, nobody will give anything up, and everyone will be carried upwards in the universal tide of a post-carbon society. This narrative is not only disingenuous—it is untrue. It is a falsehood largely borne on the shoulders of environmentalists, who, delicately careful to make platforms seem as palatable as possible, have twisted over backward in order to obfuscate and excise the sometimes jarring side-effects of comprehensive environmentalism...