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=== '''"We will innovate out of the crisis."''' === | === '''"We will innovate out of the crisis."''' === | ||
This is called the ''ecomodernist argument'' it has been around for centuries. Think about it this way... Imagine you decided to start smoking, a pack a day, maybe two. I might say but that's bad! It will kill you! then you *shrug* and say medicine will find a cure, just as it always has. | This is called the ''ecomodernist argument'' or ''technoutopian fallacy'', it has been around for centuries. Think about it this way... Imagine you decided to start smoking, a pack a day, maybe two. I might say but that's bad! It will kill you! then you *shrug* and say medicine will find a cure, just as it always has. | ||
=== '''“It's too late, I won’t make a difference.”''' === | === '''“It's too late, I won’t make a difference.”''' === | ||