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diff --git a/scrapbook.md b/scrapbook.md index f6f6685..8d07164 100644 --- a/scrapbook.md +++ b/scrapbook.md @@ -13,6 +13,23 @@ author: Joe Carstairs 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} + +## 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 |