The age of career politicians and civil servants is over - Fat Tail Daily

The age of career politicians and civil servants is over - Fat Tail Daily

‘Petrol prices aren’t high enough!’ the German taxi driver told me. ‘There are still too many people on the roads. I want to push the pedal to the metal!’ And he promptly showed me what he meant. But it wasn’t half the acceleration my mum used to manage. She lived at the beginning of an Autobahn. But watching her turn money into carbon emissions hit differently back then. When the idea of an energy crisis was laughable, and the migrant crisis ha…