This Kate Sheppard blog over at The Prospect about “Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility” by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, the self-styled thinking outside the box, “anti-environmentalist movement” environmentalists, got me to thinking about the bottom line of why most Americans still don’t take global warming — let alone Peak Oil — seriously.
They believe technological salvation will always come over the hill to save the day. My bottom line take is that these people believe in “technological exceptionalism” as a subset of American exceptionalism. Those that believe American exceptionalism comes from divine pleasure, oversight or mandate probably hold this in spades.
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