Day 1,456: groupthink

There is another, more profound, example of the danger of climate groupthink.

How misfiring environmentalism risks harming the world’s poor

Artwork of the day 
Group in Crinolines
Wassily Kandinsky
Date: 1909; Munich / Monaco, Germany
Style: Expressionism
Genre: genre painting
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY, US

Word of the day 
groupthink: the process in which bad decisions are made by a group because its members do not wantto express opinions, suggest new ideas, etc. that others may disagree with

Quote of the day
“Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.”

― Matt Taibbi, The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire