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.
We passed a tipping point for relatively minor stuff. Now we’re being warned of the catastrophic tipping point we’re approaching that will make the equator uninhabitable at sea level and touch off the largest movement of refugees in human history.
At the same time but separately we’re approaching tipping points for eco-diversity that could screw with our ability to grow food.
But the only one we’ve actually passed is the 1.5 degree Celsius one that sucks but isn’t catastrophic.
That’s the joy of nonlinearities. Every new threshold opens up a qualitatively new world of suckage.