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Tyrone Slothrop Aug 26, 2023

In “Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire” (2018), Cara Daggett explains why, with white men, #climate denial and #misogyny so often go together.

She makes a powerful argument that the patriarchal power structures in our society are deeply entwined with our fossil-fuel based economy.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0305829818775817

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This is a well written and thoughtful article, that touches on a key point that other articles like this miss: It points out that "masculinity" as defined here, means "white masculinity,"

Non-white men are *more* likely to be alarmed about climate change than white women. 🙂🙃

In fact, non-white boomers and silent generation, are more concerned about climate change than white Gen-Z women. 🤦🏿‍♂️

So the primary driver of this climate denial is unlikely to be masculinity in general.

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Ole Dirty Rice

@mekkaokereke @slothrop I wonder how much these numbers reflect who had power. Does perceived status (aka responsibility) drive the denial? It seems like it would but I’d love to see similar data with income and gender and other signals of status. People in denial about climate change might just be defensive about how much of it they’re responsible for.