embrace anarchy
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why does this exist?
When systems wobble or break, decisions are rarely made from first principles in the moment. As Milton Friedman bluntly put it, “the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.”
Energy policy is in a period of repeated crisis, and right now the ideas “lying around” are almost entirely tribal, performative, or fantastical.
Making common-sense, constraint-aware energy policy legible, written down, argued through, and emotionally survivable for normal people is strategically necessary.
It’s weird that this is now pseudo-anarchist behaviour, but this the world that we’re in.
Let’s give the people something to pick up.
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