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Finding ways for humans to live well now without consuming their children’s ability to do the same in the future.

A good framing would also draw a link to fiscal responsibility. A renewable sustainable civilization is paying its bills fully. Fossil fuels and other non renewable processes are putting it on a credit card, and one with an unknown interest rate. Eventually you can’t do that anymore and the interest comes due. Right now humanity is still putting something like 75% of its primary energy use on credit.

The worst framing is the anti-human framing you see from radical greens or films like Avatar. If you really hate humans the logical thing would be to do nothing and let us crap where we eat until we render our environment inhospitable to us. If humans are the problem the activists should go home.




>A good framing would also draw a link to fiscal responsibility

A good analogy with an under the table jab really. The worst of the ultra green policies are absolutely murder for financial responsibility.

There is no winning with the current “debate”, and double so with current “solutions”.




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