R.I.P. Scout26
One year ago, I published a book called A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety. Since its publication, I have been struck by the fact that those responding to the concept of climate anxiety are overwhelmingly white. Indeed, these climate anxiety circles are even whiter than the environmental circles I’ve been in for decades. Today, a year into the pandemic, after the murder of George Floyd and the protests that followed, and the attack on the U.S. Capitol, I am deeply concerned about the racial implications of climate anxiety. If people of color are more concerned about climate change than white people, why is the interest in climate anxiety so white? Is climate anxiety a form of white fragility or even racial anxiety? Put another way, is climate anxiety just code for white people wishing to hold onto their way of life or get “back to normal,” to the comforts of their privilege?The white response to climate change is literally suffocating to people of color. Climate anxiety can operate like white fragility, sucking up all the oxygen in the room and devoting resources toward appeasing the dominant group. As climate refugees are framed as a climate security threat, will the climate-anxious recognize their role in displacing people from around the globe? Will they be able to see their own fates tied to the fates of the dispossessed? Or will they hoard resources, limit the rights of the most affected and seek to save only their own, deluded that this xenophobic strategy will save them? How can we make sure that climate anxiety is harnessed for climate justice?
Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White PhenomenonIs it really just code for white people wishing to hold onto their way of life or to get “back to normal?”
It isn't "white" response. It is white liberals/leftists.
It isn't "white" response. It is white liberals/leftists. And not everyone agrees with them especially as they want to use it to make the lives of lower middle class people worse.
The quintessential white liberal.The author: https://envcomm.humboldt.edu/people/sarah-ray.I note that she uses "latinx" unironically.I wonder what they pay her.
Until this very moment, I had never heard the phrase 'climate anxiety' and had to Google it.
Yeah, what the heck is it?
If these idiots would just go hug a tree or kiss a dolphin Polar Bear, their anxieties would be relieved and they wouldn't have to bother the rest of us with them.
