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Ben Glasson
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Academic working on climate, culture and communication.
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You know what can reduce pollution equal to removing a million cars from the road?

Removing a million cars from the road.

We need to kill the false substitution meme from all climate discourse. Misleading at best, a lie at worst.

Because otherwise, all those cars are still out there, polluting.
October 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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New article!

Fossil complacency: reorienting climate hypocrisy and system change debates, by Otto Snellman & Sakari Säynäjoki.

doi.org/10.1080/0964...
ABSTRACT Discourse on hypocrisy is plentiful in the climate politics of the Global North. A specific form of climate hypocrisy critique, the fossil hypocrisy charge, contends that climate activists’ demands for system change and phaseout of fossil fuels are hypocritical because their everyday living is thoroughly based on fossil fuels. The individualistic fossil hypocrisy charge, wielded by climate obstructionists, has been refuted in research. However, a fundamental kernel of truth underlying the charge, and the broader obstructionist ‘narrative of necessity’ of fossil fuels, remains unresolved: Contemporary life is constitutively entangled with fossil fuels. While avoiding individual hypocrisy, we show how researchers and climate advocates might remain subject to an adjacent problem, fossil complacency, if they disregard the kernel in their agendas of system change. By drawing from interdisciplinary energy research, we show how critique of fossil complacency helps in reorienting climate hypocrisy and system change debates to overcome obstructionist ‘climate realism’.
October 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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If there is a goat that is the best one eva is it called a goat goat?
May 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Looking for a word like pre-empt but that means to ward something off by doing it yourself, first.... Gazump is a bit regional... any ideas ?
May 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM