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Gil Friend's avatar

"Replace gas automobiles with EVs cutting co2 emissions to zero" is not a fact by any definition. It's a proposed action, based on a stack of assertions (i.e. assumptions), none of which are facts. (Assertions never are.)

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Mary Midgley, in Science and Salvation (p. 1), has this generative sentence: “Any system of thought playing the huge part that science now plays in our lives must also shape our guiding myths and color our imaginations profoundly. It is not just a useful tool. It is also a pattern that we follow at a deep level in trying to meet our imaginative needs.”

What you are questioning, I think, is how we can see what guides us, and perhaps try something new.

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