Shutting down fossil fuel electric plants

[Anomalocaris]

The planet will not mourn you after you died saving it.

Hey, it's not for the applause; the act is its own justification.  

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The problem is the right wing does not see the goal of good governance to be the pursuit of greater common good or decreasing the total misery and impoverishment.   They see the goal of good governance as to protect a person’s or a small group’s paragative to exploit any unearned advantage to maximize his (their) own wealth and imfluence without meaningful concern for consequences to but a few.    So they do not think the fact that the human society overall might become more impoverished and emiserated, that other people without resource or privilege are trampled, to be a sign of failure of governance.

 

The other problem is that "good governance" has historically been an oxymoron.

Cynical cheap shots aside, historically governance has been good enough often enough so that at the end, your life is substantially less short, nasty and brutish than those of your ancesters.

Few of the cynics who say from air conditioned comfort that humanity have made nothing but negative progress are actually willing to do without their air conditioners, much less actually trade places with those who had lived before the allegedly negative progress.  Their cynicism smacks if not of biting the hand that fed them, at least of tsking at the hand that fed them.

[Dr H]

The other problem is that "good governance" has historically been an oxymoron.

Cynical cheap shots aside, historically governance has been good enough often enough so that at the end, your life is substantially less short, nasty and brutish than those of your ancesters.

I would tend to lay that at the feet of dedicated scientific researchers and engineers, who have not always been supported -- and frequently hindered and opposed -- by their governments.

Few of the cynics who say from air conditioned comfort that humanity have made nothing but negative progress are actually willing to do without their air conditioners, much less actually trade places with those who had lived before the allegedly negative progress.  Their cynicism smacks if not of biting the hand that fed them, at least of tsking at the hand that fed them.

True enough.

On the other hand you have these people.