The Climate Crisis Is an Opportunity

When did we become so resistant to progress?

Moby Dick book cover from Wikimedia, modified by author

As the Chinese language does not say, every crisis is an opportunity. The climate crisis is a great opportunity to make the 21st century much better than before. So why are we so attached to 19th-century technology?

I wonder if, in the early 1900s they were still bemoaning the decline of whale oil and…