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@@ -6,6 +6,30 @@ author: Joe Carstairs ## 2026-07-06 +### @{bowman-2010} + +Andrew Bowman shows how the scientisation of environmental politics has +deliberately closed down political vision and radical alternatives. +Environmentalists have explicitly rejected comparisons to social movements like +feminism, civil rights, and nuclear disarmament, because, they claim, their +movement is based on facts and not ideals. George Monbiot says that anti-system +radicals are putting politics first and facts second. Would a 2C world at the +cost of denying the global poor access to energy be worth it? And how is a 2C +world to be achieved anyway without politics, even as some environmentalists say +that democracy is an obstacle to environmental action? They seem to promote the +idea that power should be left in the hands of a qualified technocratic +minority, and the role of protest is to remind them to be more technocratic. +Thus protests at RBS for their fossil fuel investment, or at military air bases +for their fuel-inefficient touch-and-go runs. + +This gives me an idea. + +- @{novel-climate-change}: climate speculation is out, climate realism is in +- @{green-utopias}: the end of nature motif banishes formal eco-topia +- @{bowman-2010}: scientism banishes political vision +- MY ORIGINAL ARGUMENT: scientism is the principal obstacle, utopianism + obvious in successful 20C social movements, should be imitated today + ### @{novel-climate-change} A broad discussion of climate change in recent novels. I was looking for |