Tag: climate change
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Lawns and lost energy
Originally published by Ecocore. Neo-liberal capitalism seldom accounts for the energy spent in pursuit of useless aesthetics. By useless, I mean items and activities that lead to environmental degradation without providing much social and public value. Capitalism allows your desires to be pursued without a need to justify them. The freedom it provides is built…
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The anarchist prepper
Prepping has often been politically associated with right-wing libertarians or the extreme right. The individualist tendency to prepare for extreme scenarios has often been based on a naive interpretation of the black swan theory. The individualist wants to save himself (most of them are men), their family and maybe some friends. Right-wing Libertarian preppers project…
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On Petro masculinity
Climate change and clean, renewable energy present themselves as a threat to fossil fuel capitalists. As defined by Cara Daggett, Petro-masculinity represents the overlapping between 1950’s America (and large parts of Europe and Asia), traditionalism, authoritarianism, fascism and the masculine stereotypes built around growthism. Defending growthism as necessary for our society to function is a…