I think we're in agreement on everything but nomenclature.
The Liberals are hamstrung by not wanting to upset anybody. There being no way to do a lot of important stuff without upsetting someone, the thing does not get done.
Nearly everything is hamstrung by an implicit "without upsetting the status quo in any fundamental way"; this is why hydrogen fuel cells can get public funding, but nothing which might work (methanol-air, alkaline fuel cells with ammonia, aluminium-air, or just really good batteries) does. The point is to not change things, rather than solving the problem.
I am now solidly of the view that necessary change will require a heads-on-stakes revolution, which is wretched. I figure the last moment we've got a chance of keeping industrial culture is when Thwaites goes, later this decade. (This is much more infuriating due to a perception that the first politician to really go "and the shape of the world is changed, let's get everybody into the future" will be at risk of deification.)
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Date: 2022-01-03 03:08 am (UTC)I think we're in agreement on everything but nomenclature.
The Liberals are hamstrung by not wanting to upset anybody. There being no way to do a lot of important stuff without upsetting someone, the thing does not get done.
Nearly everything is hamstrung by an implicit "without upsetting the status quo in any fundamental way"; this is why hydrogen fuel cells can get public funding, but nothing which might work (methanol-air, alkaline fuel cells with ammonia, aluminium-air, or just really good batteries) does. The point is to not change things, rather than solving the problem.
I am now solidly of the view that necessary change will require a heads-on-stakes revolution, which is wretched. I figure the last moment we've got a chance of keeping industrial culture is when Thwaites goes, later this decade. (This is much more infuriating due to a perception that the first politician to really go "and the shape of the world is changed, let's get everybody into the future" will be at risk of deification.)