Bue Rübner Hansen

"[T]he attributable climate signal in winter precipitation in Europe appears to be emerging much faster than GCMs have projected. [T]his will mean that future flood risk, particularly in northern Europe, is substantially underestimated by GCMs and that risk is already higher than the models suggest"

Right now the big two-day Labour Environmentalism conference is kicking off at the @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social in Berlin.

I'll be taking live notes here on bsky.

YouTube video by Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung From green (new) deals to authoritarian capitalism?

Here's a working link to the current panel.
From green (new) deals to authoritarian capitalism? Implications of the fossil backlash, the militarization and the rise of fascist forces for labour environmentalism

w Stefanie Hürtgen, Silpa Satheesh, & Simon Schaupp
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0vk...

Livestream - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

LOL, I just realized the talks are being live-streamed. So from now on I'll take it easier here 😂

www.rosalux.de/livestream

Markus Wissen:
A key lesson is to understand working class resistance or its absence by considering how workers are a part of communities and families, and how work place struggles are intertwined with what happens there.

3. There's a lot of historical examples of women and black people being integrated participants in coal miners struggles. And building that is surely a way to undermine the power of the coal lobby and petromasculinity

2. Coal lobbyists are less successful in areas where labour is better organized and with its own clear line. (Is CND suggesting that the more organic leaders the working class has, the narrower to the space for petromasculinity?)

CND's responses:
1. Other people are better to ask about campaigning. I just want to say the more we understand the issues of ecology and labour througyh attention to gender (and race too!), the better we can understand what is happening and what to do >

Question: We've seen the film Pride, and the success of gay liberation activists in turning miners ideas of gender and sexuality through solidarity. Is anything similar happening or being tried in the US today?

Question: How can we use your analysis in campaigning?
Question: How do coal lobbyists get it "right"? Are you finding organic leaders within working class communities who help them develop their ideas?

Fossil fuels allowed people to imagine infinity was achievable and desirable for the first time.

(I'm paraphrasing here, and in general: don't take anything as direct quotes of CND or other speakers unless I put quotation marks)

The old working class idea of being a "good man" was undermined by the social problems of unemployment and the individualism of neoliberalism... the idea of "white trash" ignores that it ever existed and only sees poverty and the failure to live up to neoliberal masculinity

in the States, something happed with masculinity under Reagan and neoliberalism. Being a "good man" as a worker used to be to take care of family, community, union comrades... then it became about more individualized economic strength and a narrower conception of family

Ecological Masculinities: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Guidance Around the globe, unfettered industrialisation has marched forth in unison with massive social inequities. Making matters worse, anthropogenic pressures on Earth’s living systems are causing alarming ...

Answers:
1) Yes, there's a whole world of understanding masculinities in the plural. And hegemonic masculinities being different in different places. See also the book "ecological masculinities" by Martin Hultman.... www.routledge.com/Ecological-M...

Question: Can you say more about eco-masculinities? What would be wrong with wind-and-solar masculinities?

Question: How do we distinguish between people and their ideology? People are irreducible to their ideology, and in a sense always better than it: they have other sides that we know from our political practice can be addressed and built on...

Nora Räthzel: A question about masculinity or masculinities. It's important to recognize that many men do what they do out of a sense of care and responsibility and love... We need to think about those thing as well, when we think of masculinities

Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire - Cara Daggett, 2018 As the planet warms, new authoritarian movements in the West are embracing a toxic combination of climate denial, racism and misogyny. Rather than consider thes...

That was Cara New Dagget's presentation, built on this paper, which is also published as a book in German.

New the Q&A

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

but communities and working class lives can be protected and rebuilt in ways that do not rely on nostalgia for the patriarchal family, and 1950s productivist masculinity

Liberal feminist blackmail:

"For a moment the options seem to be caring in the wrong way or not caring at all". Michell Murphey

In the energy transition, then, gender only comes in in a liberal register to do with representation of women and distribution of jobs and income. But there's no questioning of extracvism and its destruction, nor of the gendered divisions of patriarchy

A lot of the nostalgia is a nostalgia for community, for love, for meaning, and for some level of economic security. Most of the energy transition narratives overlook this. Think of transition only in terms of jobs substitution and other energy sources,

So we need to think more critically about the ideology of production, productivism.

Productivism and the associated masculinism runs through petro-masculinity and ecomodern masculinity alike. They both want to sacrifize ecosystems and care for more, moRE, MORE production of energy and prowess

CND: Paradox of patriarchy:

"If men have all the poewr, why do I feel powerless?"

= patriarchy does NOT benefit all men, but promises working class men symbolic proximity to power, while provoking anxiety and a sense of insufficiency

In the 1950s where the age of acceleration really started, production, masculinity and the strength of the nation were ever more tightly connected both in the West and USSR.

Working class men were offered a form of nationalist pride and identity which set them apart from working class women,

But families were also infrastructures of resistance, and often labour environmentalist struggles against coal are lead by women in their role as mothers, who attend to the health and wellbeing of their kids and communities.

In coal mining areas, women were much more "domesticated" because they were not allowed in the mines, and there was little other paid work to get outside the mines.

The housewife-breadwinner family was very much a bourgeois-colonial construction... In urban working class families women generally had to work, extended families often lived together, and the families were more open to community.. Families were sources of resistance. But:

Also there was a fear that the children would be influenced too much by native nannies and maids and their culture... So women were needed as the "border guards of German civilization", ensuring the continuity of _racial_ reproduction