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
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.
@mekkaokereke I’ve become more convinced that there is a stronger correlation between climate denialism or indifference and someone’s dependence or perceived dependence on cars.
So many people believe they need cars, that no matter the threat of climate issues that stem from them, they will fight for more parking, wider highways, faster speed limits.
#carculture has ruined our planet.
@bluejekyll @mekkaokereke if you go onto any car forum they are *full* of angry (mostly white) men claiming in various forms that climate change is a "conspiracy" and they will fight till the last to keep their cars.
One outlier is Team-BHP but thats an Indian forum (so many directly see the sharp end of climate change), but even on there the environment is rarely discussed (although when it is, its not as acrimonious and unsurprisingly there is genuine acceptance climate issues are real)
Tyrone Slothrop
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