The Moral Missteps of Climate Activism

This brings us back to Deutsch’s submarine. Embodied within all that technology, all that comfort, and all that safety, is a continuous stream of problem solving – not just problem avoidance – stretching all the way back to the enlightenment. Now we are being told that our progress is itself the problem. That we should open the hatches and shrink back into sustainability – the same sustainability that killed all our cousin species. But this has things around entirely the wrong way – “Sustainability is the disease and people are the cure”.