cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10713443
For denial doesn’t only amount to rejecting the evidence, he argues – it also consists of denying our role in the climate crisis; absolving ourselves through “carbon offsets, hybrid cars, local purchases, recycling”. And in this, far more of us are implicated.
In some ways, this argument might not seem all that new. Multiple authors have pointed out that green capitalism, not rightwing deniers of the crisis, is our greatest obstacle to properly confronting the problem. DeLay agrees. The difference is the lens he brings to it – using psychoanalysis to explain the mechanisms behind denial.
Renewable energy is increasing at a rapid rate. You need to be less of a doomer.
It should have ramped up like that 30 years ago
That, and many later buses, have left the station.
Does that change that we’ve now hit a turning point and are on the correct path?
We started changing course, we’re nowhere near “correct path”