Story-driven politics
I am extremely tired of sensationalist politics that brainwash people into thinking they are making a difference. Climate change is the most clear case: Climate change is an important issue - a technological one, I believe, because I am techno-optimistic* - and one full of laws that are nothing but sensationalist takes and laws that fool people into thinking they are making a difference. Banning plastic straws, plastic shopping bags, and now all chargers that are not USB C, all while we burn more coal than usual and shut down nuclear power plants. This is what I like to call " story-driven politics ": Devising laws and political discourse based on measures that seem to move the needle rather than ones that actually move the needle. This technique is especially popular because when we are talking about complex systems like the ones politicians have to deal with, telling a good story is often far easier than actually solving the problem. Sitting in the EU parliament in Brusse...