scrapbook: some evidence about green rhetoric

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   not wanting to think about it, disengagement
 - @{warm-words}: results in settlerdom discourse shutting it down
 - The introduction to @{cry-of-the-wild}: exhaustion of our capacity for alarm
+- @{hickman-2021}
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+## Evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric blames the wrong people
+
+- @{hickman-2021} shows many children feel guilty for climate change
+- @{climate-change-class-war} points out that 'carbon footprinting' blames
+  individual behaviour and ignores the industrial production decisions of the
+  capitalist class, which is far more important. Professionals focus on their
+  own private consumption and ignore class and production because they live
+  separated from industrial production in knowledge work and thus see the
+  solution as learn-know-act, because they lead high-consumption lifestyles, and
+  because they believe in a meritocratic ideology. This emphasis on knowledge
+  comes out in the 'believe the science' discourse
+
+## Evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric obstructs appropriate responses to ongoing harms
+
+## Evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric justifies violence and authoritarianism
 
 ## Examples of green rhetoric in which the audience is blamed or assumed to have power over the problem