Disgraced public intellectual Yascha Mounk has a new essay titled “Where Environmentalists Went Wrong.” His main thesis is that instead of focusing on *banning plastic straws*, environmentalists should act more like the effective altruism movement. … Why, lord, why must you test me like this?

a man is sitting in a car with a group of women and says `` that 's bait . ''

Alt: That’s bait

Careful, if you say "effective altruism" three times, you will summon a demon who will want you to join his polycule.

Wouldn't that have to be hunting down and *redacted* fosil fuel CEOs?

He's a sex pest, right? I always get these hacks crossed up

Not disgraced enough

Executive altruism: do whatever you want as long as you can make up a sci-fi story to justify it.

Oh look it’s my shocked face. 😐

Yascha Monk: "have these silly environmentalist instead considered being billionaires who invite me into their group chats?"

So he wants environmentalists to commit Securities fraud?

Imagine if someone wrote the same headline and focused on things like NEPA being an impediment to building clean energy, or the anti-nuclear movement

As of the ban on straws from like 5 years ago is the sum total of a movement that is fighting a climate catastrophe, mass extinction, and out-of-control toxic pollution.