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Magical Thinking-Charles Hugh Smith

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"we have top people working on it--top people!"

(Meanwhile, back in the real world, it takes 20 years to get a new bridge approved and built in the U.S., 20 years for a new subway line approved and built and 20 years to get a new landfill approved.

We're supposed to make the leap to a renewable zero-net-carbon future in 20 years and we can't even build one new-design nuclear reactor prototype in 20 years, even as we'd need hundreds of new reactors to replace a significant slice of hydrocarbon consumption.

But if you dare to point out this painfully visible discrepancy between the real-world difficulties in getting a single prototype built in less than 20 years and the claim that we're going to transition away from hydrocarbons in 20 years, then you're a doom-and-gloomer, a naysayer who derives some bitter pleasure from shooting down optimists working on painless, sacrifice-free techno-solutions.

The essence of magical thinking is the belief
that the long dependency chain between the idea/lab experiment and a solution that's cost-effective and scales up to serve everyone will always fall into place because it's always fallen into place in the past, and so there's no reason to doubt that all the pieces will fall into place going forward.

This is magical thinking because it has zero interest in the real-world constraints embedded in each link in the long chain.)

Quite Simply They Want You Dead
 

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Yeah we know
Considering they have been at this since perhaps the WW2.
Longer if you believe Prof. Carroll Quigley. And in real earnest for the last 40 plus years of heavy brainwashing in the public education system and puppy mill Universities.
Perhaps not much longer.

Their polls consistently show that the Sheep want Zero Fossil Fuels.
Which means they now are willing to vote for their own deaths by slow starvation.

Zero fossil fuels in food production and distribution puts us at about 1820 methods, of human muscle, animal muscle, wood for steam engines and wind for sails.
Without benefit of pesticide, herbicide, fungicide or fertilizer.
No more Green Revolution ideas.

Buy land and build huge bunkhouse's, have your harness maker make harness's for the many Greta's to earn their keep plowing and reaping your fields in exchange for their bowl of gruel.

"The Brave New World"
 
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