Tanada wrote:Cornucopians don't care what problem you point out, every cloud has a silver lining and the are going to get the silver.
Fast crash doomers don't care what solution you point to because every solution is either a total failure, or a solution in isolation.
It doesn't matter what topic you pick, EV's, solar roofs, additional hydroelectricity projects, nuclear reactors, coal to oil, natural gas to oil, permaculture farming, terra preta biochar soil remediation. Pick any topic and around here these days you don't get 20 opinions, you get at most three. Opinion 1) It won't solve all our problems overnight so why bother trying? 2) Other solutions work better so why go to the trouble of doing X? 3) Lets give it a shot, it might help and can't hurt too much.
1) Doomer, 2) Corny, 3) Moderate.
Good post Tanada. Great job of summing up the overall perspectives of the main classes of folks.
I'm not convinced however, that moderates are incapable of absorbing new information or changing their minds about certain positions, even if they still tend to consider themselves moderates at the end of the day.
By coincidence, my first (as I recall) post on here yesterday fully admitted I'd radically changed my views on two major positions in the past couple years (unlike what I see from most cornies and doomers). And I pointed out it was from observing real world changes via new data.
So IMO, many moderates are happy to change positions/attitudes, even fundamental ones, about lots of things, based on substantial changes in objective data/results, as I just did.
That does NOT mean such changes will necessarily sway moderates away from being moderates. But at least if many moderates (like me) ended up being moderates because they are curious about the world and like to think about things -- that's a fundamentally different motivation/viewpoint than having an almost religious devotion to a particular point of view at an extreme end of the cornie -- moderate -- doomer spectrum.
It also most emphatically does NOT mean such moderates are "better" than anyone else, just different than the extremists tend to me, IMO.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.