Fearologics: Eco-fear Protestations of Climate Crisis Activism Need Critique
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2019-07-22
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This paper introduces a new subfield of called fearologics as part of a larger methodology of fearanalysis. After defining the concept the author then applies it to the current raging activism and debates surrounding how best to do climate crisis activism and bring about the needed dramatic changes in our society in terms of global warming and the negative impacts it will have including the near-immanent collapse of social systems with ecological systems. As much as the author can empathize with the need to bring eco-fear into the picture of deliberations and the political sphere surrounding how we manage the environment, there are dangerous precedents being created, like a new species of fearmongering (logic) within the means in which to accomplish the ends of good environmentalist practices. A few recommendations are made in which the context of fearologics may bring new insights of how to critique environmental praxis without demeaning and/or ignoring the understandable and desperate cries for help coming from (mainly youth) climate activists today.
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fearmongering, scaremongering, fearology, fearanalysis, Anthropocene era, social collapse, ecological collapse, critical praxis
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Fisher, R. M. (2019). Fearologics: Eco-fear Protestations of Climate Crisis Activism Need Critique. 1-14.