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Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 21-Dec-2025 02:44:13 JST Adrianna Tan

‘It is perverse to ignore the benefits of burning fossil fuels’ - Matty
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1. Screenshot of Matty Yglesias’s comment in his NYT opinion piece about how we should burn more fossil fuels Text reads: “ Matthew Yglesias Opinion contributing writer • 2 days ago @Jonathan I think in a realistic assessment, obviously there are huge costs to burning fossil fuels. At the same time, it's perverse to ignore the benefits. We had a low temperature of 18 degrees in Washington, D.C., where I live, earlier this week. Thanks to burning fossil fuels, my family was warm and comfortable rather than freezing to death. And lots of places are much colder (on average) than D.C. We should absolutely be encouraging people to switch from gas or oil-fired home furnaces to more efficient electric heat pumps. But for that to work, we need a lot more electricity. A large share of that additional electricity should and will come from wind and especially solar.”
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  Zack Stern (zackstern@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 21-Dec-2025 03:52:42 JST Zack Stern
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  @skinnylatte his byline/ID needs quotes around at least one of the words “Opinion Contributing Writer”
  
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