How mas­culin­ity fuels the cli­mate crisis

Description

THE dev­ast­at­ing col­lapse of our nat­ural world – driven by cli­mate change, global warm­ing, and envir­on­mental degrad­a­tion – has long been framed as a uni­ver­sal human fail­ing. However, ground-break­ing new research sug­gests that the “human­ity” respons­ible for our planet’s pre­cari­ous state is far from gender-neut­ral.

In a pro­voc­at­ive double spe­cial issue of the journal Norma: Inter­na­tional Journal for Mas­culin­ity Stud­ies, an inter­na­tional team of schol­ars has iden­ti­fied a dir­ect cor­rel­a­tion between tra­di­tional mas­cu­line beha­viours and the accel­er­a­tion of envir­on­mental col­lapse.

Subject

“There is now plenty of research that shows clear neg­at­ive impacts of some men’s beha­viour on the envir­on­ment and cli­mate,” explained Pro­fessor Hearn. “What is aston­ish­ing is how this aspect does not fig­ure in most debate and policy on a more sus­tain­able world.”