Climatism
Climatism is a social, political, and economic ideology and movement that emerged toward the end of the 20th century and aims to combat global warming, for example through climate change mitigation, so that its impact on people's living conditions is mitigated and ultimately neutralized.[1] More specifically, the idea of net-zero emissions emerged in the 2010s, the notion that an account of emission and capture of greenhouse gases by a certain deadline should show net emissions of zero.[2]
The term originated in the 2000s, initially used pejoratively by climate skeptics and others who did not believe in human-caused global warming and its harmful effects, about those who did.[3] These critics have regularly referred to climatism as a movement with religious traits,[4][5][6] with dogmas, prophet, apocalypse, guilt, and hope. Or they have characterized the movement as undemocratic and compared its desire for a world government, which could handle global warming, with the former regimes in communist Eastern Europe.[7]
Definitions
[edit]According to Steve Goreham, climatism "is an ideology promoting the belief that man-made greenhouse gas emissions are destroying the Earth's climate". He denies any human influence on climate and does not believe in climate change mitigation.[8]: 28 [3]
According to Mike Hulme, climatism is the belief that many of the big problems, like wars, wildfires and migrant flows, facing the peoples and governments around the world in the decades around year 2000 are caused by man-made climate change, and should be solved by mitigating this climate change, more specifically by achieving net zero carbon emissions. This ideology has grown out of a climate reductionist way of thinking, where "climate alone will determine the human future".[8]: 7–8 As opposed to Goreham, Hulme recognizes human influence on climate change, but believes it should be mitigated in more ways than just achieving net zero emissions.[8]: 28
Debate
[edit]The rhetoric of time scarcity should not be used to short-circuit democratic processes.
Complaints against climatism focus on what has been called a 'narrowing of vision', by reducing the understanding of the future to a scientific approach, namely the "fate of global climate and the achievement of Net-Zero", disregarding or marginalizing "the broader context of human development, political freedom, technological innovation, human adaptation and ecological evolution". Further, climatism has been criticized for only offering an understanding of relationships between climate, society and policy as seen from a scientific angle, assuming that scientific knowledge is sufficient for designing solutions, thus ignoring political debate.[8]: 123–124
See also
[edit]Miscellaneous
[edit]Climatism is the company name of a Greek company providing air condition solutions.[9]
Literature
[edit]- Steve Goreham (2010): Climatism!: Science, Common Sense, and the 21st Century's Hottest Topic. New Lenox Books, 466 pages, ISBN 978-0982499634
- Mike Hulme (2023): Climate Change isn't Everything: Liberating Climate Politics from Alarmism. Polity, 208 pages, ISBN 978-1509556168
References
[edit]- ^ Thunberg, Greta (October 2022). The Climate Book. London, United Kingdom: Allen Lane (Penguin Books). ISBN 978-0-241-54747-2.
- ^ Climatism and Its Discontents: Why Net-Zero Obsession is Unfair to the World’s Poor, article by Mike Hulme at outlookbusiness.com, 18. July 2024
- ^ a b Steve Goreham (2010): Climatism!: Science, Common Sense, and the 21st Century's Hottest Topic. New Lenox Books, 466 sider, ISBN 978-0982499634
- ^ Fik du en klimapakke under juletræet, article in Akademikerbladet, 30. January 2009 (in Danish)
- ^ Klimatisme, article by David Gress in Berlingske, March 2012 (in Danish)
- ^ Johannes Krüger (2016): Klimamyten - et opgør med tidens CO2-panik, People's Press, ISBN 978-87-7159-580-2, p. 14
- ^ Klimatismen er over os, op-ed by Bjørn Rasmussen in Kristeligt Dagblad, 2010-02-25 (in Danish)
- ^ a b c d e Hulme 2023.
- ^ https://www.climatism.gr/en/#home
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