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Adin doesn't adequately make his case and there's a subtle character in the article that he doesn't need to, that he can take for granted that the people he's writing for already see the world the way he does. It's not overwhelming, it is subtle, but it is there.

For example, he wrote, "Professor Quaid stressed the benefits of pulling expertise from a wide range of areas, such as academia, economics, labour and indigenous rights, among others." Really? What are these benefits? An article containing this sentence surely must at least enumerate them for the advantage of people like me who don't know much about this.

It's also unnecessary to use phrases like "Big Oil" and "Big Tech", which don't have a neutral character, when other phrases such as "large oil and gas and technology companies" are available.

I'm sympathetic to what he wrote and I could be persuaded that he's right, but his framing makes me suspect he's leaving material facts off the table that might persuade me of the opposite point of view.

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