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.
“There’s no solution” - says the motherfucking fucks responsible for FUCKING UP the shit and ensuring govts DON’T treat them like the criminals they are. “B-b-b-but think of
my profitsthe economy!” - I love how profits for the next quarter are more important than long term survival for them.Nobody is going after the big oil companies and ordering them to slow the fuck down. Nobody is telling the saudis to fuck off. Thanks to thinking of “the economy”, we’ll be on a very, VERY nasty future. But hey, that diamond studded yacht was worth it!
US Environmental Protection Agency tried. US Supreme Court made up some bullshit to say they couldn’t.