Dr. Genevieve Guenther (@DoctorVive): A short 🧵showing how Steven Pinker's @sapinker defense of ecomodernism is built on climate denial.
Step 1: Pinker avers that ecomodernists realize that "industrialization has been good for humanity," & he footnotes his claim.
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Step 2: In the footnote, he cites HIMSELF (previous chapters of the very same book!), and someone named "Epstein." https://twitter.com/DoctorVive/status/1548728118160101376/photo/1
Step 3: In the bibliography (layers and layers later) Pinker provides his real reference—"The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels."
Et voilà! Pinkers' defense of ecomodernism rests on climate denial.
I will be taking no questions at this time. 😁
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