Chad Briggs: Yep, @brooklynmarie.bsky.social and I were also warning about this for years. Betsy Hartmann and Simon Dalby were doing so back in the 1990s (no coincidence that my wife and I met in his class)- www.jstor.org/stable/44251...

Back in the early to mid 2010s there was this view that you should gently convince right wingers to believe in climate science and my response was always: "a right wing that believes the science is scarier than one that denies it" WELP HERE WE ARE www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Far right using climate crisis as bogeyman to frighten voters and build higher walls | Jonathan Wattswww.theguardian.com It is no coincidence that ever more extreme politics has come at a time of ever more extreme weather

Yep, @brooklynmarie.bsky.social and I were also warning about this for years. Betsy Hartmann and Simon Dalby were doing so back in the 1990s (no coincidence that my wife and I met in his class)- www.jstor.org/stable/44251...

The environment as geopolitical threat: reading Robert Kaplan's 'Coming anarchy' on JSTORwww.jstor.org Simon Dalby, The environment as geopolitical threat: reading Robert Kaplan's 'Coming anarchy', Ecumene, Vol. 3, No. 4 (October 1996), pp. 472-496

(I realize the article is behind a paywall- if anyone wants a copy or links to Hartmann's works, please message me)

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