Rants

The most annyoing thing with writing academic articles is that one has to delete the best rants. That is one of the reasons why I keep a blog... so, without further ado, please enjoy:

From Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” to Paul Kingsworth’s “Beast”, modern environmentalism has a long history of romanticizing retreat over democratic engagement across disparate worldviews. Reflecting a kind of banal methodological individualism, children are brought up to a reductionist language of carbon debt and ecological footprint calculators that puts their own existence at odds with the planet. Instead of seeing the possibilities of transformative technologies (be it molecular assemblers or advanced nuclear) and their role in innovating a climate-restored future of universal freedom and prosperity, it is thus not surprising that many children have come to experience different forms of climate anxiety or that their parents are drawn into neo-Malthusian fears of “climate refugees”.