@GalenHall4, @ColleenBSchmid1 and I explain why environmental doomism is never the right philosophy.
opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/…
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skepticalscience.com/toward-improve…
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climatetippingpoints.info
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carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-w…)
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We show the similarities by comparing to @NaomiOreskes & @GeoffreySupran’s report on the #ExxonKnew scandal.
climatechangecommunication.org/america-misled/
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Why?
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If collapse were inevitable, it would make no sense to rebel against governments that will fall apart. Nonviolent rebellion is more justified because our govts are failing to protect us even though they can.
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This contrasts with scientific consensus which says: we still mostly control future warming, and so must #ActNow.
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I’ve heard first-hand the damaging effect these narratives can have on activists’ mental health.
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Deep Adaptation encourages a kind of paralysis when it claims that “there is no ‘effective’ response” to the crisis. Again, that’s just wrong.
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By framing arguments like those in DA as the sole justification for XR’s protests, deniers and delayists can dismiss the entire movement as “alarmist.”
order-order.com/2019/10/11/ext…
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Scientific malpractice is especially damaging for a movement whose 1st demand is to “Tell the Truth.”
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One of the small group of XR protestors who, against wishes of wider movement, made the poor decision to disrupt the London underground in Canning Town reportedly referenced the debunked, doom-laden predictions of Guy McPherson as justification.
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Believing that the end is nigh undermines the kind of long-term planning that will be crucial to XR’s continued success.
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A western-centric view of collapse ignores the gross injustice that characterises climate change, both in its causes and impacts.
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emergencemagazine.org/story/reindeer…
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These are the oil majors, networks of libertarian organizations, and other industries all bent on obstructing both public understanding of climate breakdown and any real social response.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/so…
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Rising up to remove socio-political power from the Exxons, Kochs, and Trumps who are actively exacerbating the climate crisis.
forbes.com/sites/niallmcc…
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