The Climate Coup

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Mark Alizart. The Climate Coup
CONTENTS
Guide
Pages
The Climate Coup
Acknowledgements
1 A New Front
Notes
2 Short the World
Notes
3 Reichstag Megafires
Notes
4 ‘So They Knew …’
Notes
5 Carbofascism
Notes
6 ACT UP for the Climate
Notes
7 This is Not a Crisis
Notes
8 The Green Army
Notes
9 Gaia Must Not Be Deprived of Her Hopes
Notes
10 The World is Ours!
Notes
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Mark Alizart
Translated by Robin Mackay
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Some of the reasons for that are well known. Big corporations continue to oppose climate policies for short-term profit, if not up front then behind the scenes. Bad habits in agriculture and the food industry are tough to rein in. Pandering to populations aggrieved at the new norms and constraints called for by any politics with a vague sense of social responsibility is still fruitful. But this book argues there is more: all these years when environmentalism was gaining traction, the rejection of environmentalism has grown too, that is, the rejection of the very idea the world needs to be saved from climate breakdown. Some people now embrace climate breakdown; they desire it.
A huge driver of the Trump vote relied in both presidential elections on the idea that climate change is not only not real or not dangerous, but actually ‘does good’, to quote former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott,1 inasmuch as it ‘does bad’ to others. With characteristic political flair, the former president mused, to the great satisfaction of his electoral base, about the fact that rising sea levels would wreak havoc upon his enemies, the ‘coastal elites’.2 Likewise, there is no other way to understand why Jair Bolsonaro, in Brazil, would encourage the burning down of the Amazon forest, all the while knowing perfectly well what kind of a disaster it is for the rest of the earth. Or why Australia’s current prime minister, Scott Morrison, watched the bush burn from his swimming pool in Hawaii as if it were some kind of reality show to be enjoyed rather than a disaster to be averted.
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