In fact, I do know better than all scientists brought together, in some things. That is the fundamental problem of tacit knowledge in complexity science – you can’t know everything everywhere. Only by connecting people through systems of individual action do you bring their total knowledge into one system. Appealing to authority is what creates disasters.

You refer to social disasters caused by fighting global warming? Well I’d love some examples of those! I don’t have to give you social disasters of problems caused by over exploiting nature as the movies is packed with examples. If you want others, look up the Aral sea disaster, Haiti, all the major rivers running dry,…

And I don’t understand why you focus only on global warming since this is only one problem the movie pinpoints. What about deforestation, water pollution, air pollution, excessive water exploitation,… Should we just continue doing that too?

Lastly you say: “Green politics fails not because it relies on facts that are incorrect, but because it relies on facts that are inherently unknowable”. So what do you know about the situation if we would just continue business as usual? Do you know better than all scientists brought together?

We don’t know what the consequences of global warming are going to be, and we don’t know if anything we do will have any impact on the climate, or if it won’t make things worse. The climate is not a linear system and it can’t be tackled with linear science. And the means used to attempt to control global warming, concentrations of power in a few world-spanning bodies, have been a cause of social catastrophes that are repeating themselves.

We are currently living through a social disaster of historic proportions, and that disaster is most definitely man-made. Yet there is no consensus on resolving it because it arises out of a moral error, and someone always benefits from a moral error. The same is at work with the global warming lobby.