The Progress of This Storm by Andreas Malm

Author:Andreas Malm
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (Publisher Services)

A PATH TO MILITANCY

Contemporary hybridism comes in two main forms: constructionism and new materialism. If the former collapses nature into society, the latter does the reverse. As we have seen in the figure of Latour, the two are closer than it might first appear; indeed, they sometimes seem to be ensnarled branches growing out of the same ideological trunk (to whose identity we shall return). We have argued that this thicket is of sparse analytical value for orientation in a warming world. What of the politics?

The policy recommendations of idealist constructionism are not hard to come by. One scholar who sometimes falls under its spell, Mike Hulme, is on record as saying that ‘there is no such thing as a “good” climate or a “bad” climate, only “good” or “bad” ways of imagining and living with climate.’ Imagine 4°C in a good way and it might turn out fine. Hence ‘it really is not about stopping climate chaos’ – it is about telling stories, and the story of approaching climate chaos is a distraction, a diversion, a myth that has blinded us to

our contemporary crisis. Why, for example, do we not see the same political energy and diplomatic capital being invested in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as we see daily being invested in the drive to establish an international climate regime with its sights half a century hence?92

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