Energy Climate and Sustainability

15b: Discussion

work@mishavelthuis.nl

Mon 19 May 2025

Today

Pick up where we left things

Discussion

Violence resistance

Lanchester's paradox

Given the magnitude
Given the awareness
Given the ubiquity of easy targets
Given the expected effectiveness
Given the enormity of injustice

Where is the sabotage?

Be the investment risk you
want to see in the world

Positive flank effect

Negative flank effect

Catch-22

Right wing flanks

The shortcomings of XR

Violence against persons

Luigi Mangione

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Mangione

Killing of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson.

Who is responsible for how many deaths?

Arwa Mahdawi in the Guardian:

While there are a lot of reasons that many people find the 26-year-old alleged assassin sympathetic, you can’t just gun a CEO down outside a hotel in Manhattan and face no consequences for it. And Mangione, who is, by all accounts, an extremely smart guy with an Ivy League education, should really have known better. He should have known that if he wanted to murder someone – and get away with it – there were far more socially acceptable ways of doing so.

Mangione could, for example, have got a well-paid job as a management consultant and helped supercharge the country’s opioid epidemic; chances are he would have faced little more than a slap on the wrist. He could have gone to Gaza and shot some Palestinian children in the head – in which case, not only would he probably face no consequences whatsoever, US lawmakers would probably go out of their way to shield him from accountability. And, of course, Mangione could have gone into the health insurance industry himself, and routinely denied life-saving care to desperate people in order to boost profits. That type of violence is perfectly fine.

Energy Climate and Sustainability

15b: Discussion

work@mishavelthuis.nl

Mon 19 May 2025

Today

Violence resistance

Lanchester's paradox

Be the investment risk you
want to see in the world

Positive flank effect

Negative flank effect

Catch-22

Right wing flanks

The shortcomings of XR

Violence against persons

Luigi Mangione

Only blowing up pipelines?

The ministry for the future

Distributed responsibility?

Discussion

Individual vs collective action

Energy Climate and Sustainability

15b: Discussion

work@mishavelthuis.nl

Mon 19 May 2025

Today

Violence resistance

Lanchester's paradox

Be the investment risk youwant to see in the world

Positive flank effect

Negative flank effect

Catch-22

Right wing flanks

The shortcomings of XR

Violence against persons

Luigi Mangione

Only blowing up pipelines?

The ministry for the future

Distributed responsibility?

Discussion

Individual vs collective action

Be the investment risk you
want to see in the world