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+## Criticisms of green catastrophism
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+- Causes despair, nihilism, denial, or black comedy, instead of hope
+  [@flannery-2024, @wojcik-end-of-the-world]
+- Obscures human responsibility and implies that human action is irrelevant
+  [@flannery-2024, @kvandal-2025, @apocalyptic-dimensions]
+- Anthropocene discourse flattens out power relationships and thus kills
+  politics [@kowalewski-environmental-apocalypse, @fagan-2017,
+  @climate-change-class-war]
+- Implies that business as usual is basically OK and looks for the old
+  oppressors to save us [@apocalyptic-dimensions,
+  @kowalewski-environmental-apocalypse, @climate-change-class-war,
+  @green-utopias]
+- Obscures ongoing green harms [@kowalewski-environmental-apocalypse,
+  @fagan-2017, @apocalyptic-dimensions]
+- Encourages ritualistic behaviour to make you feel better instead of effective
+  action [@wojcik-end-of-the-world, @american-apocalyptic]
+
 ## Evidence that catastrophic green rhetoric causes alienation
 
 - Lucy Jones' attitude before her second child in @{losing-eden}