quote -“If you can’t read or understand the ‘peer-reviewed science’ then you are open to being intimidated into fearful silence by those who can, or claim they can. And those people - drawn, as all green ‘thought leaders’ are, from the upper strata of society - will bring with them a worldview which treats the mass of humanity like so many cattle to be herded into the sustainable, zero-carbon pen.”

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• The problem can be extrapolated into language itself
• Any word is just an abstraction and oversimplifies a complex reality
• if we generalize this argument, it leads to the general claim that
  • abstraction leads to harmful conclusions as well