Rather than approaching publics as having diverse interests and concerns about CCS that need to be addressed through engagement, ZEP's publics seem to be cast as unable to formulate autonomous opinions about the relative desirability of CCS compared with other climate change mitigation technologies and strategies, and as passive targets for information.
We've gotten lazy in reaching our own autonomous opinions, instead relying on the "woke" position to surface.
What seems most to concern the new and supposedly autonomous self is the opinion of others, who in aggregate compose "society".
It is indefinitely superior to the capitalist autonomous individual model in my opinion but there may be other views that are even better, and/or more capable of solving our problems within a competitive conceptual framework.
The dominant challenge to adoption is in changing public opinion in favor of autonomous vehicles.
Even more spurious were their arguments, summarised by the Bishop of Oxford's opinion that "we are not autonomous beings" and so must wait for God to release us.
During the process of drafting, NPC Environment Protection and Resources Conservation Committee formally consulted 18 central institutions, such as the Law Committee in NPC Standing Committee and the Supreme People's Court, and the opinions of the 34 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities.
"You don't need AI to respond to voice commands," Annalee Newitz, author of the novel Autonomous and co-host of the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct, told me.
To pick up that opinion today, a paean to the states as "independent and autonomous," in the words of Justice Antonin Scalia, is like unearthing an artifact from a bygone era.
I thought we were an autonomous collective".
