An Israeli politician named Abba Eban once said, “Men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other resources.” Nowhere is that sentiment better on display than where science intersects with politics, as the two rarely travel in the same lane.
While politics is, as Otto Von Bismarck once said, “the art of the possible,” science represents the rigid outer boundaries of the possible. So, when politicians invariably push those scientific boundaries beyond absurdity, supercilious political buffoons self-identify by trying to out-science actual scientists.
In the case of environmental protection, political buffoons invariably advocate for “feel-good” solutions which make little to no difference. We commonly know this as “virtue signaling.”
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