Let’s cut through the noise. The hydrogen versus electrification debate—the one that consumes conference panels, LinkedIn threads, and academic seminars—isn’t a debate at all. It’s a category error dressed up as intellectual rigor. Electrification absolutists and hydrogen evangelists are both fighting over the same square mile of territory while the actual battlefield stretches across three…
There is a pattern that repeats across history. A power structure rises, peaks, plateaus, and then begins its long, predictable decline. The conservative mind, as Corey Robin observed, is not merely resistant to change—it is structurally incapable of recognising this curve until it is too late. The conservative defends the present, which is already waning.…