cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10713443
For denial doesn’t only amount to rejecting the evidence, he argues – it also consists of denying our role in the climate crisis; absolving ourselves through “carbon offsets, hybrid cars, local purchases, recycling”. And in this, far more of us are implicated.
In some ways, this argument might not seem all that new. Multiple authors have pointed out that green capitalism, not rightwing deniers of the crisis, is our greatest obstacle to properly confronting the problem. DeLay agrees. The difference is the lens he brings to it – using psychoanalysis to explain the mechanisms behind denial.
I’m kinda annoyed that it is taking so long for plastics to be phased out of the packaging industry… Plus there is the fact that one of our political parties only wants to pass laws favoring fossil fuels
Money.
It’s all always money. How powerful do you think the plastics lobby is? How much money do they have to throw around? A lot.