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.

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@slothrop

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 Thanks for highlighting this.

I’ve edited the original toot to reflect that the combination of misogyny and climate denial is specifically a white men’s thing.

@slothrop @mekkaokereke

Non-white humans are immune against "that combination of misogyny and climate denial"?