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Great thread from Fred.

"Science is a method for testing claims about the natural world, not an immutable compendium of absolute truths. The fundamentalists, by ‘knowing’ the answers before they start...lie outside the domain of science–or of any honest intellectual inquiry." - Stephen Jay Gould (1991)

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It’s a weird juxtaposition because why not craft a message where we aggressively reduce concentrated corporate power AND we fix bottlenecks and build more stuff?

The framing of this issue as progs vs mods is doing a real disservice to the concrete policy objectives. It's happening from both sides, and it does nothing but make state level coalition building harder and generate highly-polarized timeline engagement. Congratulations.

Abundance is fascism? Whaaa? How did we get to the point that a *University of Toronto professor of political science* is convinced that, like, upzoning and making it easier to build transmission lines is the same as the Holocaust?

The following list of US industrial decarbonization projects cancelled today is a whos who: Sublime (cement), Brimstone (cement), Exxon's H2 crackers, Heidelberg (cement), National/Lebec in CA (cement). Kraft (food processing). A disaster. nytimes.com/2025/05/30/cli… brad plumer

The trucks are rolling, soil is moving, and the foundation is set for North America’s first small modular reactor build at Darlington Nuclear Generating Station in Clarington. #BWRX300 #NuclearEnergy 🇨🇦 insauga.com/construction-b…

“We should no more support secular versions of blasphemy laws than the old religious variety.” As Hamit Coskun is found guilty of “a religiously aggravated public order offence” for burning a Quran, my article on blasphemy from February: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

It may be the left cautious Abundance-curious folks (eg Fred Stafford Matt Huber Leigh Phillips 🇨🇦), upholding big public power as a better model to deliver on a promise of low electricity costs for the masses/means of production, who are most clear-eyed on all this.

Excellent thread from Seaver. *This* is the sort of Abundance and clean transition discourse we need to be having.

Beatrix Potter, best known for The Tale of Peter Rabbit, also entertained early ambitions to be a serious naturalist. Mushrooms were her specialty, and at age 31 she submitted a handsomely illustrated paper On the Germination of the Spores of the Agaricineae to the Linnean

Much like the degrowth “left” today, who are these 1970s Malthusians’ direct descendants.

This stuff is why the death of local media is so important. There’s no point giving more power to local politicians, if there’s no meaningful local media to scrutinise them. Wrote about it last year (see link in reply).

Famously, when Josh Shapiro removed all obstacles to repairing I-95 the one thing he kept was union labor. It wasn't an obstacle to getting the job done in 12 days.

As with Liverpool dockers refusing to offload apartheid South African uranium in the 80s, workers are the ones who built this world, and we have the power to bring it to a halt, if only we realize that we have that power. More of this, please.

It's 1995. Stephen Smith, head of TVA Energy Reform Coalition, disapproves of integrated resource plan, wants more conservation & renewables at TVA, says private power better. TVAERC since rechristened Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. Smith still head, saying same things.