It is important that the working class, with their low levels of education and uncontrolled passions, continue to be kept out of the debate about how to respond to climate change. These are the 5 key steps for achieving that. 1/6 2/2 Step 1: Limit the climate debate to ways of achieving net zero. Rather than open up discussion about how to live in the face of this crisis, we must keep the discussions within the net zero framework, to avoid the emergence of any real hope.

What we talk about when we talk about climate change. A short(ish) thread.
1. What is presented as climate action is actually action intended to legitimise liberalism in the face of a catastrophe for which liberalism has no answers. Here's how it's done 1/10 2/10. Dominant representations of this unprecedented and overwhelming crisis are anchored in what is already familiar and known. That anchoring has to date been done by liberal Western institutions, within discursive guardrails that serve the interests of those institutions.