Wrapping up the week

While Germany closes down its last nuclear reactors and deepens its fossil dependency further yet, I let the sun chase away all my dark thoughts as I head out around the lake to complete another 70 km week. It is such a privilege to be able to sustain this kind of volume and remain injury-free. Unfortunately, my left arm is still in pain from the skiing, so all indoor rowing is suspended for the time being. 

At WPSA, one of my fellow panelists presented a critique of Matthew Huber’s Climate Change as Class War which sparked my interest. While more clear-eyed than most on the need for public power (both electric and political), Huber fails to see that the widespread use of fossil fuels is not so much due to some dark conspiracy theory as to the simple fact that fossil fuels are so useful for society (and much better for the environment than biofuels). Nevertheless, just like at WPSA, it is great to see that people on the political Left are beginning to see though the hypocrisy of the professional-managerial class and its fetishisation of the “local” (not to mention third-world agrarian poverty).