From 76948c5cabf2c92ab2f9fd3c75276b632e62556c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Carstairs Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 08:46:48 +0100 Subject: criticisms of green catastrophe (from 2026-05-13) --- scrapbook.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) 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} -- cgit v1.2.3