{"id":346,"date":"2022-11-10T11:38:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T11:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.larsholdhus.com\/blog\/?p=346"},"modified":"2022-11-10T14:37:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T14:37:47","slug":"on-petro-masculinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larsholdhus.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/10\/on-petro-masculinity\/","title":{"rendered":"On Petro masculinity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Climate change and clean, renewable energy present themselves as a threat to fossil fuel capitalists. As defined by Cara Daggett<\/a>, Petro-masculinity represents the overlapping between 1950\u2019s America (and large parts of Europe and Asia), traditionalism, authoritarianism, fascism and the masculine stereotypes built around growthism.  Defending growthism as necessary for our society to function is a typical position for petro-masculinity. Downplaying the damage of fossil fuels for the sake of growth often is presented by petro-masculine males to comfort their fragilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is petro-masculinity?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Petro-masculinity is defined as an authoritarian movement in the West embracing a toxic combination of climate denial, racism and misogyny.

63 per cent of conservative males in Norway do not believe in anthropogenic climate change<\/a>, as opposed to 36 per cent among the rest of the population who deny climate change and global warming. Overall, 29.6 per cent of conservative white males (CWMs) <\/a>in the US believed that the effects of global warming \u201cwill never happen,\u201d and just 7.4 per cent of all other adults shared that view. Similarly, 58.5 per cent of CWMs\u2014but only 31.5 per cent of all other adults\u2014denied that recent temperature increases are caused primarily by human activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From The Futurist Manifesto, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come, my friends!’ I said. `Let us go! At last Mythology and the mystic cult of the<\/em> ideal have been left behind. We are going to be present at the birth of the centaur<\/em> and we shall soon see the first angels fly! We must break down the gates of life to<\/em> test the bolts and the padlocks! Let us go! Here is they very first sunrise on earth!<\/em> Nothing equals the splendor of its red sword which strikes for the first time in our<\/em> millennial darkness.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We went up to the three snorting machines to caress their breasts. I lay along mine<\/em> like a corpse on its bier, but I suddenly revived again beneath the steering wheel – a<\/em> guillotine knife – which threatened my stomach. A great sweep of madness brough<\/em>t us sharply back to ourselves and drove us through the streets, steep and deep, like<\/em> dried up torrents. Here and there unhappy lamps in the windows taught us to<\/em> despise our mathematical eyes. `Smell,’ I exclaimed, `smell is good enough for wild<\/em> beasts!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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