[svnt]

I think it is mostly a confusion of identity.

We are used to the people pushing against technological progress being someone other than older and somewhat tech-capable men.

These people have been holding out and formed their arguments back when they first learned about renewables, which was twenty or more years ago. Technology has continued to progress but their positions ossified early.

Now that the future they denied is here we are seeing vanilla guilt-backed rationalizing. We just aren’t used to seeing it from these guys because they were always excited back when technological progress generally proved them right.

[hef19898]

I read a comment lately along the lines of "80% of conservative outrage is caused by understanding how things work fornthe very first time". There is some truth to it.

[lstodd]

Which is as insightful as "80% of progressive outrage is caused by not understanding how things work at all". The is some truth to this too.