How to Misunderstand the Climate Crisis
The consequences of catastrophic climate change are daunting, almost too terrifying to contemplate, and denial can help us through it.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
The consequences of catastrophic climate change are daunting, almost too terrifying to contemplate, and denial can help us through it.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
The consequences of catastrophic climate change are daunting, almost too terrifying to contemplate, and denial can help us through it.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Most people do not feel they or their loved ones could die from the climate crisis this month, and so emergency mode is harder to activate and sustain. As Salamon pointed out to me, if we truly accepted we were in a climate emergency, then every day the news would lead with updates about which countries were reducing their emissions the fastest, an... See more
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As Tad DeLay writes in Future of Denial, we are all, in a Freudian sense, repressing the reality of a climate changed future. It doesn’t bear thinking about, so we’d rather not. Reckoning with it leads to a daunting unravelling of the logic that structures our world.
Rebekah Diski • Rebekah Diski | Facts Not in Dispute
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but not in a way that is consonant with an objective understanding of the situation. And by “objective” I don’t mean a cynical, realpolitik, business-as-usual understanding of the situation; I mean the cold scientific facts of even the most optimistic scenarios. So, if you’re hanging your hope on preventing catastrophe, you’re hanging your hope on
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
but not in a way that is consonant with an objective understanding of the situation. And by “objective” I don’t mean a cynical, realpolitik, business-as-usual understanding of the situation; I mean the cold scientific facts of even the most optimistic scenarios. So, if you’re hanging your hope on preventing catastrophe, you’re hanging your hope on
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
but not in a way that is consonant with an objective understanding of the situation. And by “objective” I don’t mean a cynical, realpolitik, business-as-usual understanding of the situation; I mean the cold scientific facts of even the most optimistic scenarios. So, if you’re hanging your hope on preventing catastrophe, you’re hanging your hope on
... See more