Energy Transition Engineering

Climate Emergency  Outrage Outrage has been one of humanity’s key evolutionary strategies as we must have social structures in order to survive. People who behave in anti-social ways must be called out and corrected in some way or they would pose a threat to the whole. When we perceive something being unfair or wrong and against our code of social conduct, then we, as a group (it is a group behaviour) call-out, shame, and express our outrage at the perpetrator. This shared outrage is the necessary vehicle for carrying out ostracisms and punishments that again, keep the group together. Think about it, we probably individually have too much empathy to be able to convict and sentence and imprison someone for 15 years for possession of a stolen TV. Could any of us individually carryout the socially mandated punishment to cut off the hand of a person who stole bread… but as an outraged group, yes we can carry out some pretty horrific punishments. Researchers have found th...