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user-inactivated  ·  2572 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The New York Times’ Coal Miner Interview Is Why We Won’t Stop Climate Change

tenet: evolved, adapted behaviors are likely to be successful in non-obvious ways, which The State repeatedly discovered to its dismay when it steamrolled in with High Modernism thinking it could Fix Everything, and failed (in the examples given by the author)

colonialism in africa/india, centrally-planned cities like brasilia, stupid tree-planting patterns in siberia, etc