... [+]Texas leadership didn’t imagine that another storm like the one 10 years ago would come and wipe out their electric grid again.
They ignored analyses by experts, plans for how to prepare their grid, backup systems and community for the next one the experts saw coming around the corner, especially with climate change. Texas leadership apparently also ignored days of weather reports, both national and local, predicting such a massive storm. This Texas leadership is overwhelmingly male.
Women are only 27% of the Texas legislature, the Texas governor is Greg Abbot, a white male and staunch Republican, and though three of the 10-member ERCOT senior management team are women, two of them do not have technical roles . One woman,is head of security and compliance, and I wonder if she sounded any alarms, though she apparently drove deregulation in her previous roles, and it’s dedication to deregulation that contributed to this fiasco.
The Covid-19 vaccines that are saving our lives and livelihoods, on the other hand, are the product of innovative thinking, with allegiance only to facts and science. They evolved from research that began in the 1970’s, combining unusual things, applying unusual processes, and using unusual inputs. That is the essence of innovation. They were developed by people who brought novel ways of approaching a challenge and their own varied experiences to the table.
Every time someone says 'hive mind' an angel loses their wings. Hate group think.
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