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 author: Joe Carstairs
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+## 2026-07-03
+
+### @{green-utopias}
+
+I read chapter 1 to get the lay of the land. Garforth is pro-utopia, not just
+pie-in-the-sky but a way of imagining the good life and thus critiquing BAU. Her
+book attempts to tell a story of how green utopias, principally in Anglophone
+fiction, have responded to changing circumstances circa 1970-2015.
+
+She notes two big periods: 1970-1995-ish and 1995-present-ish. The first is
+characterised by the new figure of environmental crisis, radicalism, limits
+discourse, though through the 1980s the environmental movement became more
+mainstream with the sustainable development discourse. In chapter 2, she focuses
+on the figure of environmental crisis and the sustainable development discourse.
+In chapter 3, she focuses on deep ecology and ecocentrist philosophy. In chapter
+4, she deals with green utopian science fiction of the period.
+
+In the 1995-present-ish period, environmentalism has been thoroughly
+incorporated into mainstream politics and business. This is a sign to some of
+ecological modernisation, but to others of the death of environmental politics.
+Chapter 5 examines how crisis has been normalised through mitigation-adaptation
+discourse and how science fiction has tried to re-open radical green desires
+using apocalyptic modes. Chapter 6 examines how speculative fictions have
+responded to the 'end of nature' idea, whether of mourning/grief/loss or of
+imagining a positive post-nature world.
+
 ## 2026-07-02
 
 ### @{smoke-mirrors-hot-air}
@@ -32,7 +58,7 @@ uncertainty and doubt (MUD) by encouraging scientists under their employ to
 author papers which use dodgy statistical methods and cherry-picked, or
 fabricated, data to come to conclusions out of step with the truth of the
 reality of climate change, and publishing in-house journals in which to publish
-such papers.  Once these papers are published, the peer-review process ensured
+such papers. Once these papers are published, the peer-review process ensured
 that they created controversy, increasing the perception that the science is
 uncertain. (Pretty unevidenced up to here.)
 
@@ -130,7 +156,7 @@ Third, there must be resistance against the misinformation network's efforts to
 attach their misinformation to political issues and thus make it in the
 interest of certain political actors to promote their misinformation. In
 particular, there should be more social science to understand the
-misinformation network's strategies (e.g.  hiring paid actors to stand as vox
+misinformation network's strategies (e.g. hiring paid actors to stand as vox
 pop), investors should divest from fossil fuel companies, and there should
 exist targeted local campaigns, viz. media campaigns, inoculation campaigns,
 and legal activism campaigns.