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@@ -4,6 +4,23 @@ title: Dissertation log author: Joe Carstairs --- +## 2026-05-07 + +### @{climate-change-class-war} + +The professional classes who make up the bulk of the environmental movement like +to think that they, as consumers, drive the economy. Producers can only follow +demand. Therefore, it makes sense to model greenhouse emissions as linked to +individual lifestyle choices: exactly what people explicitly say is the +assumption behind 'carbon footprinting'. However, consumption is not in fact +king. People can only consume what is produced, and thus, what is profitable to +produce. But carbon footprinting ignores production. The villian of carbon +footprinting is the suburbanite who drives a Humvee to work every day. But we +ignore the industrial production decisions he makes at his work, the carbon +consequences of which render his Humvee and oversized house small change. Thus, +'carbon footprinting' obscures who is really responsible for climate change: the +capitalist class. + ## 2026-05-06 ### @{uninhabitable-earth} |
