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From: Joe Carstairs <me@joeac.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 18:14:30 +0100
Subject: log: bowman 2010

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+@inbook{bowman-2010,
+    author={Bowman, Andrew},
+    title={Are We Armed Only with Peer-Reviewed Science?},
+    subtitle={The Scientization of Politics in the Radical Environmental Movement},
+    date={2010},
+    editor={Skrimshire, Stefan},
+    publisher={Continuum},
+    address={London},
+    booktitle={Future Ethics},
+    booksubtitle={Climate Change and Apocalyptic Imagination},
+}
+
 @book{novel-climate-change,
     author={Trexler, Adam},
     address={Charlottesville},
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 ## 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
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