Posted on 10/30/2018 12:40:31 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Despite overwhelming evidence that climate change is unfolding more rapidly than previously imagined, many policymakers around the world are rolling back environmental protections. Anthropologist Jennifer Carlson will give a talk, “Denial’s Authority: Anti-Environmentalism and the Aesthetics of Negativity in Contemporary Climate Politics". Carlson is the Cornell Society for the Humanities 2018-19 sustainability fellow.
Carlson will discuss how embracing anti-environmentalism provides a kind of social affirmation.
“If we’re going to reach out to people, we have to understand that we’re not being asked to educate or optimize, but to improvise with and learn from how their vernacular theories of power and capital enable them to adapt to their world,” Carlson said.
Carlson, a visiting scholar in energy humanities at Rice University’s Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences, researches how the ability to deny climate change increases one’s political authority. Her work employs critical and theoretical humanities tools to understand why scientific evidence is, for some, a reason to become more oppositional, and why evidence does not always amount to authority. “Denial seems to create a sense of social solidarity in a way affirmation cannot,” she said.
This semester Carlson is teaching a class titled Deranged Authority: Culture, Power, and Climate Change. Studying a real-world problem from a variety of perspectives has been rewarding, she said. “My students are really trying to understand the complex question of climate change, not only from an intellectual perspective but from the perspective of living as neighbors.”
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Hahahahahahahah ... OMG hahahahahahaha
Even if it’s real, it’s been poisoned by leftist politics.When it’s selectively aimed at capitalism it’s discredited.Like everything they touch, it’s corrupted by their agenda. They should quit using it as a vehicle to peddle Marxist lies.
I don’t really need to ping you...I know the answer.
Doubt she would debate a geologist.
What the hell is “energy humanities”? I don’t think this person knows her anus from an excavation about science.
From the article: “...we’re not being asked to educate or optimize, but to improvise with and learn from how their vernacular theories of power and capital enable them to adapt to their world,” Carlson said.”
So I guess she will help us to adjust our vernacular theory of power and capital to adapt to the New World Order.
Big words. Small content.
The Big Lie in action. Sadly, it works.
If you fiddle with the data to show the results you want of course it will show data supporting your premise. Evidence structured to support bias and predetermined outcomes is not evidence. No matter how many so called scientists claim it is.
Hey, they still have a great Vet college AFAIK.
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Looks like a He-She.
Humanities didn’t use to be code for crap.
Sigh.
Maybe if she lost twenty pounds and promised not to speak.
AND not take off the bagS. Hers or mine.
#3bagster
Pff, that’s a tired old field. All the real forward looking thinkers are into Emergent Synergies in Energy Humanities now.
She specializes in “how can we fool ‘em next.”
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