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global warming as a Bolshevik plot

[...] the Right may be onto something when it describes global warming as a Bolshevik plot: curbing climate change requires a fundamental rethinking of our economic system and the role of the state in orchestrating it. Conservatives grasp at a visceral level just how vast the implications of the ec…

—p.111 Earth, Wind, & Fire The Eco-Right’s One Simple Trick (111) by Kate Aronoff
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science operates on a different timetable

Venture capital is designed to demand large returns in the short term. This makes VC firms unlikely to support the sort of research that produces technological breakthroughs, which requires generous financing over long periods of time. Science operates on a different timetable than capitalism.

—p.108 Bill Gates Won’t Save Us (108) by Ben Tarnoff
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nature is never under our control

In response to the charge of hubris and Prometheanism, it is just as important to emphasize that though we accept the inevitability of attempting to “plan” nature, the socialist project does not aim at controlling nature. Nature is never under our control, and there are always unintended conseque…

—p.81 By Any Means Necessary (73) by Peter Frase