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diff --git a/scrapbook.md b/scrapbook.md index 30bebf5..7a03e98 100644 --- a/scrapbook.md +++ b/scrapbook.md @@ -4,6 +4,24 @@ title: Dissertation scrapbook author: Joe Carstairs --- +## Criticisms of green catastrophism + +- 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} |