"The people of America have rejected the expertariat, and I think with good reason because I think the expertariat have been wrong about one thing after another, including climate policy. The expert class, it seems to me, is full of arrogance or hubris."
Yes, Myron Ebell - because there is of course nothing remotely arrogant or hubristic about claiming to know better than experts in the field, is there? When in the run-up to the EU referendum Michael Gove argued that Britons had "had enough of experts", he was clearly echoing a worrying transatlantic position.
Ebell - the man who until recently led Donald Trump's transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency - has branded the environmental movement "the greatest threat to freedom and prosperity in the modern world". As much of a dangerous egomaniacal lunatic as Trump seems, it's profoundly unsettling to realise that there are plenty of others who share his apparently perverse worldview.
In other words, we're all fucked.
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
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