Interventionism + Climate Change Theories
Two new essays that you might like
Hi Substackers! I know that some of you here didn’t switch with me to Ghost so I thought that I’d give you a heads up of two new posts that you might like.
Five Attitudes Towards Climate Change (and the impact on our society)
In this essay, I try to make sense of different approaches to climate change I’m watching shape my country’s politics. Brace yourself for frames brought forth from hedonists, Evangelicals, xenophobes, and accelerationists. It gets real weird.
We Need an Interventionist Mindset
This essay is based on a talk I gave about why solutionism is unhelpful - and why both technology designers and policymakers need to think in terms of interventions not solutions. (Kudos to the Tech Policy Press for letting me publish this there.)
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I loved reading your interventionist mindset piece! I've been meaning to read the longer academic text on it but just haven't gotten to it. This is a useful framework for my growing body of work on internet culture, thank you so much for putting your work out there.
I'm working on a book proposal about growing up online, particularly how lessons from mid-00s social media can be applied to today. I want to avoid overgeneralizing and advocating for legislation that has fallen flat under the guide of "protecting kids" - these issues are so much more deeper. I have It's Complicated on my bookshelf.