ESG and Carbon Pricing La La Lands

Elite groupthink in the planetary impasse

In the Anthropocene, catastrophes—including the meta-catastrophe of runaway global heating—are man-made. Specifically, they are caused by an incongruence between elite discourse and ground realities. Put simply, elites think the world is a certain way but it is not, and that is what causes the catastrophe. The history of the modern era is a history of c…