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Tad Delay; Foreword by Clayton Crockett
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The age of climate denialism is far from over. The Future of Denial
asks us to consider why we squander the short time we have left.
Will capitalists voluntarily walk away from hundreds of trillions
of dollars in fossil fuels without force? And, if not, who will
force them? The age of denial is over, or so we are told, yet
emissions continue to rise while gimmicks, graft, and greenwash
distract from new climate violence against the vulnerable. This
timely, interdisciplinary contribution to the environmental
humanities draws on the latest climatology, hints in the energy
transition, critical theory, Earth's paleoclimate history, and
trends in border violence. Militias near Portland hunt imaginary
left-wing arsonists during a wildfire because they cannot imagine
the world is warming. Europe erects nets in the Aegean Sea to
capture migrants pushed out by drought and war. An airline claims
to be carbon neutral using cheap offsets. Drone strikes hit people
living along the aridity line. Yes, Exxon knew as early as the
1970s, but the basics of global warming were already understood
before the American Civil War. Our capitalist economy is an
ecocidal machine lashing out against the marginalized and shifting
blame.
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