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Anthropologist to speak on climate change denial Oct. 30
Cornell Chronicle ^ | October 30, 2018 | By Emily Parsons

Posted on 10/30/2018 12:40:31 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Despite overwhelming evidence that climate change is unfolding more rapidly than previously imagined, many policymakers around the world are rolling back environmental protections. Anthropologist Jennifer Carlson will give a talk, “Denial’s Authority: Anti-Environmentalism and the Aesthetics of Negativity in Contemporary Climate Politics". Carlson is the Cornell Society for the Humanities 2018-19 sustainability fellow.

Carlson will discuss how embracing anti-environmentalism provides a kind of social affirmation.

“If we’re going to reach out to people, we have to understand that we’re not being asked to educate or optimize, but to improvise with and learn from how their vernacular theories of power and capital enable them to adapt to their world,” Carlson said.

Carlson, a visiting scholar in energy humanities at Rice University’s Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences, researches how the ability to deny climate change increases one’s political authority. Her work employs critical and theoretical humanities tools to understand why scientific evidence is, for some, a reason to become more oppositional, and why evidence does not always amount to authority. “Denial seems to create a sense of social solidarity in a way affirmation cannot,” she said.

This semester Carlson is teaching a class titled Deranged Authority: Culture, Power, and Climate Change. Studying a real-world problem from a variety of perspectives has been rewarding, she said. “My students are really trying to understand the complex question of climate change, not only from an intellectual perspective but from the perspective of living as neighbors.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anthropology; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Say what we will about George Carlin's atheism, but he was absolutely right when it came to the environment (language)
21 posted on 10/30/2018 12:53:58 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

22 posted on 10/30/2018 12:55:53 PM PDT by TADSLOS (I hate Russian Dolls. They are so full of themselves.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Energy Humanities...

Hahahahahahahah ... OMG hahahahahahaha


23 posted on 10/30/2018 12:55:54 PM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Even if it’s real, it’s been poisoned by leftist politics.When it’s selectively aimed at capitalism it’s discredited.Like everything they touch, it’s corrupted by their agenda. They should quit using it as a vehicle to peddle Marxist lies.


24 posted on 10/30/2018 12:59:00 PM PDT by Spok
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Lazamataz

I don’t really need to ping you...I know the answer.


25 posted on 10/30/2018 12:59:13 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Doubt she would debate a geologist.


26 posted on 10/30/2018 1:08:18 PM PDT by big bad easter bunny
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What the hell is “energy humanities”? I don’t think this person knows her anus from an excavation about science.


27 posted on 10/30/2018 1:09:50 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

From the article: “...we’re not being asked to educate or optimize, but to improvise with and learn from how their vernacular theories of power and capital enable them to adapt to their world,” Carlson said.”

So I guess she will help us to adjust our vernacular theory of power and capital to adapt to the New World Order.

Big words. Small content.


28 posted on 10/30/2018 1:14:42 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Big Lie in action. Sadly, it works.


29 posted on 10/30/2018 1:15:48 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you fiddle with the data to show the results you want of course it will show data supporting your premise. Evidence structured to support bias and predetermined outcomes is not evidence. No matter how many so called scientists claim it is.


30 posted on 10/30/2018 1:24:13 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: boomop1

Hey, they still have a great Vet college AFAIK.


31 posted on 10/30/2018 1:25:40 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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Looks like a He-She.


32 posted on 10/30/2018 1:28:33 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Humanities didn’t use to be code for crap.

Sigh.


33 posted on 10/30/2018 1:29:34 PM PDT by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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>> “Anthropologist to speak on climate change SCAM denial Oct. 30
34 posted on 10/30/2018 1:35:30 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel; Oldeconomybuyer; Lazamataz

Maybe if she lost twenty pounds and promised not to speak.


35 posted on 10/30/2018 1:37:47 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac; bagster

AND not take off the bagS. Hers or mine.
#3bagster


36 posted on 10/30/2018 1:39:04 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Anthropologist Jennifer Carlson will give a talk, “Denial’s Authority: Anti-Environmentalism and the Aesthetics of Negativity in Contemporary Climate Politics".


37 posted on 10/30/2018 1:42:33 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Agatsu77

Pff, that’s a tired old field. All the real forward looking thinkers are into Emergent Synergies in Energy Humanities now.


38 posted on 10/30/2018 1:43:49 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: steve8714

She specializes in “how can we fool ‘em next.”


39 posted on 10/30/2018 1:50:53 PM PDT by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
”Cultural anthropology” has long since deserted the ranks of legitimate science. it now even self-describes as advocacy for social causes. This ill-informed girl is a classic example of what happens when feeling replaces thought as a basis for discerning truth and the action it implies.
40 posted on 10/30/2018 1:57:29 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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