cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10713443
For denial doesn’t only amount to rejecting the evidence, he argues – it also consists of denying our role in the climate crisis; absolving ourselves through “carbon offsets, hybrid cars, local purchases, recycling”. And in this, far more of us are implicated.
In some ways, this argument might not seem all that new. Multiple authors have pointed out that green capitalism, not rightwing deniers of the crisis, is our greatest obstacle to properly confronting the problem. DeLay agrees. The difference is the lens he brings to it – using psychoanalysis to explain the mechanisms behind denial.
We’ll solve it with space capitalism, now with mirror satellites to block 11% of the sunshine (and also use like a giant magnifying glass on the ants of society) we just need more companies able and willing to spin a satellite launcher at 5000mph to help it achieve low earth orbit without using rocket fuel.
That’ll show em how capitalism is always the right answer.