Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Who says a serious examination of the world can't include a few zingers?

 Within a few pages of each other appear the following gems:


"...in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the result of extraordinary Soviet-era bungling..."



"...because of Mao's bone-headed schemes like backyard iron smelters with copious emissions and zero economic output."



Steven Pinker in Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress 

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