Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
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It's just a violent thing.
Making fun of people for.
for caring about the future of life on Earth, I guess.
And it's very gendered, too.
Men polling shows are just far less concerned about climate.
There's a whole petro-masculinity, big car, least fuel-efficient car.
trucks you're never going to actually put anything in the bed of.
I learned this from Liz Plank's book called For the Love of Men.
There's a study on just men are less likely to want to carry a reusable bag for their groceries because it's like, and I'm just like, how are we going to get anything done if it's like emasculating to carry a canvas bag?
It's like the how big a steak can you eat is like in the same kind of zone of thinking.
Like that's the manly thing.
But all of this is culture.
Like what who are the people telling us what's cool?
And what's aspirational.
We've got a world of influencers who are leading us in exactly the wrong direction.