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61. If progesives don't want to shut off heat to the poor...

Sun Nov 22, 2015, 02:41 PM

Nov 2015

...., and to a lot of other people also, saying "to hell with fossil fuels" just won't be possible in the upcoming decades . This is an example of a conflict between short term and long term progressive goals.

Some problems, such as climate change, just don't have easy, reasonable, short term solutions. Getting angry and adopting extreme measures won't help. It will only hurt those who are already hurting and will hurt quite a few more also. Moderation is called for because moderation has the best chance to solve the problem and to do so in a humaine way.

Extremism demands that one, or a few, goals be pursued to the exclusion of other goals and values and without regard to the general consequences. Extremism is inherently inhumane.

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