“The authoritarian practices required by fossil capital in the global south [and middle east] were often geographically separated from liberal forms of governance in the West. This made it possible for many… to remain ignorant of their complicity in fossil authoritarianism.”

"In the US post-war economy, fossil fuel systems functioned as the means to becoming a real man - if burning them entailed violence, this was constructed as an unfortunate side effect to be made invisible to privileged consumers. But fossil fuels have become a dead end, both for the planet and for the goal of middle-class jobs. In this context, burning fossil fuels can come to function as a knowingly violent experience, a reassertion of white masculine power on an unruly planet that is perceived to be increasingly in need of violent, authoritarian order."

from Cara Daggett’s 2018 article “Petro-masculinity”

#sadism #masculinity #oilAndGas #fossilFuels #energy #manliness #MAGA #growth #development #agnotology

@BenjaminHan

I had some ideas, which I have not yet totally achieved

I wanted to think up something based on the guarantee that you can explain something, a term: not really like a domain of expertise...

rather in terms of being able to explain to someone else, be it at the same level or a less advanced level

Not a 100% guarantee without error... But like a bag of terms, and concepts, and relations someone is at ease with... that someone guarantees:
- 1. to be able to talk about
- 2. to detect false things on the subject.

It's no longer a question of title, phD, career or else...

It could avoid issues like a pair of experts in Petrology Geology publishing a few paper denying Climate Change, then they create the "Syposium of the Consensus that everyone agrees Petrology Geologist understand Climate more than Climatologist" <- true fact, I just changed the name #agnotology

I think it is related: playing with knowledge that is a little too far from one's zone of expertise (as an Engineer that's what I do every day wrt Science)

If you have feed back on the idea, don't hesitate

Academic Freedom index:
- good are northern countries;
- worst is Saudi Arabia;
- Pakistan, the USA and France have the same trend to zero;
- Germany and Israel are not shown because good and unchanged in the recent years, which demonstrates bias.

Try it: https://v-dem.net/data_analysis/VariableGraph/

#science #agnotology #ignorance #academicChatter #academicFreedom #NL #university #research #Pakistan #India #France

"I was naive. I thought that the benefits of doing science would be self-evident. And I anticipated that our science—as people who look at the planet and see that it’s changing—would come under scrutiny and even attack because the implications are politically inconvenient. We’ve seen that before, and that’s what I expected. What I did not expect was that [the Trump administration] would go after pediatric cancer research first. That they would go after Parkinson’s research first. And they would go after vaccines, the greatest invention of humanity. And that has shocked me, the fact that science is under attack, not because its conclusions are necessarily politically inconvenient but because it is a way of telling the truth. That has been the most disorienting and frightening aspect of all of this."

An interview with climate scientist Dr Kate Marvel: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/top-climate-scientist-kate-marvel-just-resigned-from-nasa-heres-why/

#science #agnotology #ignorance #academicChatter #NASA