[RetroTechie]

I'm thinking..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle

Often phrased as "science progresses one funeral at a time"

..applies here. Each time a Big Oil executive or one of their conspirators eats it, green tech progresses.

They worked to build today's fossil-dependent world. 20-somethings work to build a world that does without fossils (and imho they're doing ok there).

[datsci_est_2015]

Yeah, with the added factor that the US has large swaths of wealth that were accumulated from exploitation of the commons. In this case, natural resources with negative externalities tied to their extraction and consumption.

It creates a sense of entitlement, as well as enforces a certain type of world view that justifies their actions. How would you feel if your entire career was being invalidated by those who you consider intellectually and culturally inferior political enemies?