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To get through the climate crisis and build a sustainable society, we need to focus on what’s important, and on solving the core problems — not arguing over details.
We are asking the wrong questions.
For example, we are asking which kind of energy should we be using? Solar? Nuclear? Wind? Hydro?
We are asking, how can we incentivize the markets to reduce use of fossil fuels?
We want to know how to get governments to take the appropriate actions, the ones required by Nature Herself to prevent total catastrophic climate collapse.
These sound like sensible questions. But they aren’t. They are some of the wrong questions. They waste time. They make dangerous and false assumptions.
We need to do better.
What’s Wrong With Those Questions?
Some of these questions aren’t questions for us — they are questions for other people. For example, most of the questions related to the specifics of how to address the crisis are questions for climate scientists — not non-scientists, not even climate activists. We lack the expertise to answer those questions. We shouldn’t be answering them any more than we should be telling our surgeon how to remove our…
