Luxury Crackpottery
Tony Thomas has a useful climate depot reminder of the sayings of Naomi Oreskes.
Harvard Professor Naomi Oreskes dubbed ‘The Queen of Climate Crackpottery’
Trigger warning: if your household companions include a cat, dog, canary, goldfish or turtle, this article is not a safe space. I’m writing about Harvard’s distinguished agnatologist Professor Naomi Oreskes (above) and her 2014 warning that global warming would kill your pets in 2023. The warning is in her acclaimed but glum book The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future. Given margins of error in climate science, the pet die-off might be this year instead. Oreskes wrote,
The loss of pet cats and dogs garnered particular attention among wealthy Westerners , but what was anomalous in 2023 soon became the new normal . … A shadow of ignorance and denial had fallen over people who considered themselves children of the Enlightenment (p9).
The whole piece is well worth reading as a reminder of something we’ve known for decades – it is possible to be a successful professional crackpot if you take care to promote what are clearly luxury beliefs. It helps to have a strong totalitarian theme too, but we already know that.
The Collapse book is about Western civilisation’s ruin while China saves the planet with its enlightened anti-CO2 measures. She is writing from the future in 2393 when she will be aged 435. Oreskes (as at 2393) is cross because we have refused to build enough windmills to stop at 11degC warming (p32) and eight-metre sea rises (p30). We should not have eaten so many fillet steaks and, personally, I should not have tooled around in my reasonably priced, petrol-powered Hyundai i30 when Teslas were available at $80,000.
Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2024/04/luxury-crackpottery.html
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