'Like watching a slow-motion train crash...'
have each been aware of the potential for manmade climate catastrophe since the 1970s. "Why do we condemn today's children and future generations to live on a dangerous and hostile planet?""Fossil fuel hegemony," the experts write, referring to what they consider to be a "prevailing assumption organized by corporate and political elites" that "endless economic growth fueled by fossil energy is so fundamental and commonsensical it cannot be questioned.
In other words, fossil fuel reliance is so widely accepted that it's become a both lived and ideological way of global life. Fossil fuels, under this hegemony, aren't just tools. They're a "natural state of being," and to question their dominance is to question the fabric of society. Indeed, this hegemony has proven to be a powerful political tool. Just look at how former president Donald Trump was able to galvanize the working class with his promise to reinvigorate the coal industry. The facts went out the door, and coal became a symbol for a way of life that once was — and by Trump's logic, a world that was
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