Unlike thoughtfulness, which helps people make the trade-offs necessary in the real world, thinkwashing causes a perverse kind of analysis paralysis. “The status quo with all its embedded imperfections and the harms,” Capstick says, somehow tasks progressives with “making the world a sort of perfect place.” But perfect isn’t the goal; better would be enough.
So how, exactly, are people to push back against thinkwashing, especially when it’s so hard to distinguish from virtues like healthy skepticism and due diligence? The answer lies in techno-pragmatism, a merging of theThe first step is to set the terms of the discussion, instead of merely reacting to hype. This means asking whether the core problem is really being addressed in any conversation about change. “In climate spaces, there's an obsession with gas cars as the problem.
. “But the actual issue is mobility/transit.” From there, solutions that speak to the core problem are more easily identified—in this case, more infrastructural support for walking, biking, and other ways of getting around—and aggressively pursued.mean that tangential problems get short shrift, only that their place in the larger ecosystem is properly qualified. For example, vehicles will remain important for essential services, including fire trucks and ambulances.
Against this backdrop, it is important to quantify the risks of each problem—and proposed solutions. If the techno-optimist is 99 percent sure their technology will improve the world but the remaining 1 percent is the chance of an existential threat like climate change worsening, that risk is still too big to stomach.
Techno-pessimists rightly claim that emerging technologies will inevitably have big and unpredictable side effects
If only there were a crisis. But everyone pushing this knows there is not. They buy property on coastlines, they sell insurance for it, they fly around on private jets etc... and they get rich off the weather. You cannot overestimate the gullibility of humans.
You're gonna be ok.
'Good. Bad. I'm just the guy with the shotgun'
The climate 'crisis' has been blown out of proportion to better serve as a vehicle for a global Marxist takeover... Marxist UNSDG Agenda2030 WorldEconomicForum ESG BaitandSwitch TechnocraticDictatorship CommunismKills
Like expecting the last 40 years of panic headlines to at least have come true once?
Some great mind anchors here: “People thinkwash whenever they magnify the complexity of the problem and undermine real possibilities.”
If you are concerned about climate change how about some push back on graphics card manufacturers who keep making ever more power thirsty cards? Its getting rediculous that I need to get a 1kw power supply just to run a computer. The 4090 is a great example of excess.
So…does that mean what *you’re* doing is…brainwashing?
The world isn't burning and your 'Climate Change' is a hoax.
The World is Not Burning
Climate Change is 🐂💩
And yet, the world stubbornly refuses to burn, despite the models.
First it was Global Warming and when that did not happen, the phrase became Climate Change. Why not just admit that environmentalism is the vehicle to establish global tyranny?
Except the world is not burning.
It doesn’t.
new headline: 'when companies are unwilling to address root issues, it’s often because doing so would threaten their revenue stream'
'Thinkwashing' 'while the world burns'. 🙄
'thinkwash' omg