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But Paris summit in 2015Most countries, including the US, promised to limit global temperature growth over pre-industrial levels to 1.5 ° C-A significant range to meet the most frightening effects of culture change. However, scientists recently confirmed that 2024 was the first year to cross this threshold, marking it as the hottest year on record.
But Trump’s Bravo and Climate dialogue And the abandonment of responsibility is likely to encourage many other countries, especially to follow a similar route, led by hard-light governments in the global north. This is undoubtedly bad news for countries in the global South, especially due to the increasing severity of climate change effects, facing existence hazards. These nation is advocating climate justice and demanding more accountability from rich countries.
However, President Trump’s chanting “Drill, baby, drill“And their open disregard of the climate agreement, clearly reflects their aggressive, hyper-masculinity, and” right “political stance.
Many scholars described it as “oil masculinity”, a cultural and political structure where fossil fuels, especially uncontrolled extraction of oil, are combined with hyper-masculine values such as domination, aggression and victory. This ideology celebrates the practice of performing power, control over nature and performance of national dominance.
Slogan “Drill, baby, drill“Popular in the American political discourse by Republican, it represents this ethos by preparing oil drilling as a bold and unpublished claim of strength. It rejects environmental concerns as weak or incompatible, strengthening this story The fossil fuel dependence is both indispensable and desirable.
However, this perspective disregards serious environment, social and economic consequences of uncontrolled oil extraction, including climate change, housing destruction and long -term energy insecurity. It advocates for permanent energy practices, portraying them as obstacles for progress and national strength and development.
By preparing fossil fuel extraction as a case of identity and pride, “oil masculinity” cleaner, challenges the efforts of transition towards more equitable and durable energy systems.
But the world “does not need”Drill, baby, drill,“As it is some of the way for some disaster and destruction. In countries Global south and millions of poor peopleThose who are already affecting the huge costs of climate change run by the overlapping and unstable lifestyle of rich countries, should challenge this “oil masculin”, which is accompanied by “protection, children, protection” with slogans .
This optional reaction directly faces the careless ethos of consumed consumed in “Drill, baby, drill“By advocating more thoughtful and sustainable approaches to resource management. The slogan emphasizes the need to adopt energy-skill .
(Anand Pradhan is a professor of journalism in the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhankal, Odisha. This is an opinion. The idea expressed above is the author’s own. The Quint Neither endors nor responsible for them.)
