1. So I have some thoughts on Jonathan Franzen, climate change, The New Yorker, the Protestant and transcendentalist roots of American individualism, Fredric Jameson, E.B. White, and a few other things. Maybe Jack Kirby.
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10. "Cozy catastrophe" is a term Brian Aldiss coined to describe John Wyndham novels: "The essence of cosy catastrophe is that the hero should have a pretty good time (a girl, free suites at the Savoy, automobiles for the taking) while everyone else is dying off."
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11. We really don't have the luxury for fantasies of a cozy catastrophe, where global ecological collapse will return us to the comforts of small farm life and local democracy and Thoreauvian reveries over warblers. There's a world to save.
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12. I have some more thoughts here on where Jonathan Franzen is coming from and why he's wrong. https://www.thenation.com/article/climate-change-jonathan-franzen/ …
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Mark Fisher, not Jameson. (https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/capitalist-realism …)
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Also how do we nurture healthy soil and gardens with neither bees nor butterflies?
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I think that's a rhetorical question, but people should be encouraged to plant butterfly and bee friendly gardens. I think such is probably all Franzen meant, in addition to doing the lobbying, striking, marching, calling, voting, boycotting, which is apparently not his thing.
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If you have a plan for ending capitalism in the United States, let's hear it. If you don't, perhaps you'll admit that there's a reason it's easier to imagine the end of the world.
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Yes. GDP, petrodollar, endless growth, etc. Franzen talks about what people can do, beyond voting, to help nature: "(restoring forests, preserving grasslands, eating less meat) can reduce our carbon footprint as effectively as massive industrial changes" -- this can't be wrong.
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I think the "cozy catastrophe/small town life" is another way of saying "deep adaptation," which I think of as a bottom-up approach, maybe more European than American. https://twitter.com/argentpanda/status/1171058583217168384?s=20 …https://twitter.com/kstrw/status/1170952943467716614?s=20 …
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One of the *most* problematic things about this fantasy is that our existing crop mix is dependent on a stable climate. Good luck "nurturing" soil or pollinators in the teeth of currently-unimaginable heatwaves and droughts...
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