Professional engineer and permaculture designer fascinated by the thermodynamics & metabolics of infrastructure and the built environment.
Humanity's future lies in cooperation with natural systems. Stop fighting with the planet - it is bigger than you!
GreenEngineer
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It's a useful heuristic that if a message is beneficial to people with a lot of power to generate or amplify messages it needs to be viewed with some skepticism.
It might be true under an authoritarian regime "The opposition party is evil and their actions are futile" but, also...
Buying fire engines that fit the city you want is cheaper than building your entire city to fit the fire engines you have. This is true even after taking staffing costs into account.
Patrick Siegman
Graham Cummins
The replies in this are really worth reading for a cross-section of the places where there are big gaps between public understanding and expert knowledge.
