Are movements against climate-change policy anti-environmental? Research on the yellow vest movement

Levain, Alix; Persico, Simon; Alexandre, C; Dondeyne, Christèle; Elalaoui, Charif; Fortun, Lucie; Gaborit, Nathan; Lann, Yann Le; Reungoat, Emmanuelle; Sudda, Magali Della

doi:10.1057/s41253-022-00186-w

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“…This is, for example, the case in the green policies towards the establishment of low-emission automotive requirements, including some EV-exclusive restrictions, in many cities. The idea of the "still-carbonised" class coming under top-down decarbonisation policies was perhaps best captured by the Gilets Jaunes in France, a movement seeking to defend the rights of the "people of the diesel"-those who had little choice other than to continue on the path of fossil-fuel dependency under increasingly coercive conditions (Levain et al 2022). Attitudes towards the movement were themselves strongly correlated with class, "highly educated" decarbonised class members working in the private sector being particularly hostile and dismissive (Le Lann et al 2021;Wilkin 2021).…”

Section: The Still-carbonised Classmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green Transition's Necropolitics: Inequalities, Climate Extractivism, and Carbon Classes

Deberdt,

Le Billon

2024

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This article theorises the processes of colonisation, wealth accumulation, and inequalities creation that the current paradigm of a resource‐hungry green transition enacts on the most vulnerable populations. We suggest that the extractivist logics and related technical fixes are leading to a “climate necropolitics”. In this, the socio‐economic system is increasingly defined by classes’ carbon exposure and consumption. Through the “green growth” of late capitalism, we theorise the advent of four carbon‐defined classes. Bounded by the access to climate tech capital and consumption of low‐carbon products, these include the ultra‐carbonised, decarbonised, still‐carbonised, and uncarbonised classes—with the first two acting as dominant classes and necropolitical agents sustained by the remaining lower classes. Inspired by Marxist scholars, we suggest that the current status quo is untenable and will result in class warfare during which coalitions between classes could reorient the “make live and let die” of the current green transition paradigm.

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Section: The Still-carbonised Classmentioning

confidence: 99%