Your thoughtful response made me think you’d get a lot out of a guy named Adam Curtis, he makes documentaries for the BBC. This is a good one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzqDMnUG4kk
It’s long, because he’s covering a lot of ground and pulling together a lot of different threads but holy fuck it’s worth the time.
Yeah, just spitballing here myself. Critical thinking is a skill though, it can be developed by almost anyone.
Think of it this way - humanity is a giant mass of people all ripe to be conned, ripped off, and robbed by people who are marginally smarter than average, but also amoral and nasty. It could be scientology, an email from a Nigerian prince, or the cult of Trump, it doesn’t matter. If critical thinking can be taught then that’s a defense against the manipulators and scammers, the only defense that works.
The flip side is that you can’t use reason to talk someone out of a bad position when they didn’t use reason to get into it in the first place.
You need to look into how nuclear plants are built. They’re custom made for each site, there’s no supply chain there. Why do you think they nearly always end up over budget and behind schedule? A robust supply chain prevents those things.
By your logic I could say that pumped hydro storage has a robust supply chain because dams can be made out of concrete.
You have it backwards. Each new nuclear plant is essentially bespoke, that’s why they cost so much. It’s wind and solar that have an established supply chain.