{"id":44629,"date":"2019-03-21T07:20:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44629"},"modified":"2019-03-21T07:20:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:20:05","slug":"green-new-physics%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44629","title":{"rendered":"Green New Physics\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Green New Physics<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Johannes Vermeer\u00a0The lacemaker\u00a0<\/strong>1669-71<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You could probably say I\u2019m sympathetic to the schoolchildren protesting against climate change, and I\u2019m sympathetic to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her call for a Green New Deal. Young people are the future, and they deserve a voice about that future. At the same time, I\u2019m also deeply skeptical about their understanding of the issues they talk about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, I don\u2019t see much understanding at all. I think that\u2019s because they base their comprehension of the world they\u2019ve been born into on information provided by the very people they\u2019re now protesting against. Look kids, your education system sucks, it was designed by those destroying your planet, you need to shake it off and get something better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I know what you will do instead: you\u2019re going to get the \u2018proper\u2019 education to get a nice-paying job, with a nice car (green, of course) and a nice house etc etc. In other words, you will, at least most of you, be the problem, not solve it. And no shift towards wind or solar will make one iota of difference in that. Want to improve the world? Improve the education system first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate change is just one of an entire array of problems the world faces, and in the same way the use of fossil fuels is just one of many causes of these problems. And focusing on only one aspect of a much broader challenge simply doesn\u2019t appear to be a wise approach, if only because you risk exacerbating some problems while trying to fix others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Green New Physics You could probably say I\u2019m sympathetic to the schoolchildren protesting against climate change, and I\u2019m sympathetic to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her call for a Green New Deal. Young people are the future, and they deserve a voice about that future. At the same time, I\u2019m also deeply skeptical about their understanding of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[24399,141,193,24745,5330,287,23450,24746,12273,656,13924,745,5177,15173,924],"class_list":["post-44629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-aoc","tag-climate-change","tag-davos","tag-engine","tag-entropy","tag-extinction","tag-green-new-deal","tag-maximize","tag-physics","tag-protest","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-species","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-thermodynamics","tag-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44630,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44629\/revisions\/44630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}