@petergleick the Club of Rome, in the 60s, layed out optimistic reports showing how technology and innovation could avoid environmental and climate catastrophies. The robber barons running fossil fuel companies, knowing the reports were correct, used the reports to develop misinformation campaigns to delay that mitigation so they could keep their snouts in profits as long as possible. Don’t talk to me about Stalin or Mao, this is the biggest betrayal of humanity in history