The unemployed coal worker doesn’t want to be retrained to build solar panels for a company thousands of miles away, owned by venture capitalists aligned with progressives screaming about climate change.
He wants to create value the way his parents and grandparents did, by digging up the local resource right under his feet. Environmentalism feels like a cruel trick or an international conspiracy, and the patronizing tone of those who “know better” doesn’t convince him otherwise.
By disconnecting science from the broader, systemwide realities of nature, human experience, and emotion, we rob it of its moral power.
The problem is not that we aren’t investing enough in scientific research or technological answers to our problems, but that we’re looking to science for answers that ultimately require human moral intervention.
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