Undergraduate Honors Thesis
The Paradox of Climate Doomerism: Using Nietzsche, Deleuze, and Guattari to Analyze and Provide an Alternative to Climate Inaction Public Deposited
- Abstract
Despite increasingly dire warnings from environmental scientists, carbon emissions are
still on the rise, and environmental activism has not seen a corresponding increase in popularity.
The rising influence of “doomer” communities online, which amplify pessimistic environmental
news and inspire climate anxiety, are emblematic of such climate inaction and environmental
nihilism. Participation in these online communities can result in an intriguing paradox in which
an individual may learn more information about climate change and environmental issues, but
respond to this information with complacency. This thesis argues that the exercise of the
Nietzschean concepts of ressentiment and bad conscience within eco-conscious communities,
interpreted and reconceptualized by Gilles Deleuze in Nietzsche and Philosophy, are root factors
which contribute to complacency in climate action. Through a Deleuze-Nietzsche lens, and using
concepts from Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s project Capitalism and Schizophrenia, I further
analyze the ethical framework of ecomodernism, radical hope, and solarpunk, and use these
lenses to explore the ways in which solarpunk’s radical potential can be maximized to refute
climate inaction.
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- 2024-04-23
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- 2024-04-22
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