From 8fd6e0bf3511479caa59d6e2c9532a913ae13c8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Carstairs Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 18:14:30 +0100 Subject: log: bowman 2010 --- log.md | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) (limited to 'log.md') diff --git a/log.md b/log.md index 71ad3fb..736bf3b 100644 --- a/log.md +++ b/log.md @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3