@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 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.

@AutisticMumTo3 @mekkaokereke of course there are exceptions, and we have so much infrastructure built around cars that we don’t need to be concerned with that going away in our lifetimes.

Again, like my other replies, if only the people who actually need to use cars were the ones to do so, we’d be in a far better place. The issue is that is not happening because people are blocking things like protected bike lanes discouraging more people shifting away from cars.