Along the same thought - why would these people even be talking to Brianna Wu in the first place? He's a failed candidate who couldn't even muster up any meaningful grassroots support, he has no position of power or influence (despite his posturing), no credentials to suggest that he has any insight to offer on the issues, and he has no meaningful connections to any industry to help push their goals. He's just an unemployed idiot with a Twitter account. There's no reason at all to be including him in any discussion regarding climate change policy and having him there at all makes your organization seem like it's not serious.
The depth of John's knowledge of climate change and green energy is on par with that of his knowledge of being a woman, an engineer, or a gamedev. Which is to say, he's read the
Green New Deal page of Ocasio Hyphen Cortez's website as well as numerous random tweets, and is now able to blurt out phrases -- righteously and melodramatically -- that he has absolutely no understanding of .
Of course, an actual engineer would have noticed that the Green New Deal
sounds really great as a policy initiative but is lacking in the wheres and hows, as if it were modeled on the
Underpants Gnomes model in South Park:
Phase 1: Sign the Green New Deal into law
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: Utopia!!!
I mean, I would love nothing more than a completely "green" energy infrastructure in this country, but I'm not going to uncritically buy into some politician's statement of intent while knowing the harsh realities that underlie this massive and multifaceted problem. Especially when an energy policy initiative has language like "
...be responsive to, and in accordance with, the goals and guidelines relating to social, economic, racial, regional and gender-based justice and equality."
It makes me question whether the electrical outlets in my house might not be a bit... ummmm, transphobic and misogynistic. I don't think they are, but I'll probably need to buy a Fair Trade Trans-friendly Multimeter that is calibrated in AAVE, with readouts that run from
Ain't No Voltage Here Motherfucker to
This'll Kill You Fam. And with an ohms scale that runs from
Resist Misogyny to
Resist Orange Man.
Yes, I know I'm sperging, but how can I not, knowing how oppressive electricity is, and how it disproportionately affects those with Apple products and Porches, and who sport a sans-a-dick? Sometimes it's a hard world for little things.