One thing I struggle with, with regard to leftist/pop-leftist approaches to environmentalism, is:
Our modern medical supply chain is dependent on fossil fuels to a boggling extent. Single-use sterile items; packaging for same; pharmaceutical precursors; etc. Obviously, defossilization of these supply chains is mandated --
but it's a hard problem. There are no quick or absolute fixes. So when I hear "just shut it down," I hear "my disabled brother is an acceptable casualty."
More generally, it drives me nuts that sloganeering and anti-institutional sentiment become excuses for disengagement from supply chain and lifecycle analysis. Hard problems are handwaved as shit "corporations" should fix, that the revolution will magically fix --
-- but thermodynamics cares little for moral suasion, folks. Transcending modern, environment-destroying approaches' limits requires a shitton of research, development, and operationalization work. & I see folks stepping down not up.
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