18 March

It's beautiful to see the social status mechanism brought into the light like this. 'Load-bearing for people's sense of self'. That's glorious. "Here is what the shock jocks and the Murdoch machine and the fossil fuel funded think tanks have spent 30 years building. Not just doubt about climate science. That's the surface level stuff. What they actually built is a cultural identity around scepticism of clean energy. They made it so that if you drive a ute and vote conservative and live outside a capital city, accepting the reality of solar and EVs and renewables feels like surrendering. Like admitting the other side was right about something. Like betraying your tribe. That's the genius of it. They didn't just lie about the technology. They made the lie load-bearing for people's sense of self."