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The Importance of First Principles in Policymaking
I try to get us like us to return to kind of like first principles and this might all sound a bit wishy walk you but I don't think it is. So far as often in policymaking whether it's environmental or economic policymaking, we start without even questioning from the position of what are our frameworks for appraising the world. And then we figure out how the outcomes that we want to see can kind of be sort of wedged into those framework. That's the exact kind of inverse of the approach that we need to be taking particularly around climate ecological crisis which is: What are the values that we all shareWhat are the things that we cherish? How can we use the