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Oh boy, homework! Now I’ve got to clear some paths in my overgrown mental thickets. There was a bilious NY Times magazine interview last year, which showed him to be a get-off-my- lawn irrational crank, but you want specifics, understandably, so I’ll try to root around and get back here.

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Great rundown of a running down civilization, basically unassailable in its points, so let me reiterate my familiar assail - the sourcing is a bit problematic. Smil/Gates are a corporatist tandem of crankdom and illogic, and need no attention. Hagens has nothing to say to his great friends the Fortune 500 CEOs - what can anyone say to them except thanks for nothing, folks?

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I wasn't aware that there are issues with Smil's work. Is there any writing on this that you could share?

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https://www.desmog.com/vaclav-smil/

Taking money and belonging to the American Enterprise Institute? “The world is constantly improving”?

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oof yeah… and I see he cites Nordhaus (boooo!) … and thinks hydropower is a good energy source, couldn’t foresee what droughts are now doing…

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