Climate Hysteria and “Boy Math”: Masculinity, Tech Fixes, and Gendered Climate Solutions
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Pushkin Industries
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Stop listening to hysterical Swedish teenagers and start listening to reasonable men! Some dudes do have solutions to the climate crisis; they just don’t involve messy interpersonal stuff, changing their lifestyles, or reorganizing the global economy.
Gendered narratives, from doomerism to colonies on Mars, have shaped popular responses to the climate crisis but these "boy math" solutions promise easy fixes without actual change and have led to individualized, “masculine” approaches to solving it.
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| 0:00.0 | Who was that like, save the whale kid or whatever that was like, you are not speaking for us. Oh, Greta Toonberg. Greta Toonberg. What happened to her, by the way? She would take a steamboat from Sweden to yell at somebody on a soapbox. How old is she now? Is she got an only fan? I don't. What? Oh, 22. All right. She's of age. |
| 0:22.6 | Oh, we're going to hell. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm sorry. But hey, we're going together. |
| 0:25.7 | She's got a solar-powered vibrator. |
| 0:27.5 | I remember. |
| 0:29.3 | Check out my carbon foot finish. |
| 0:31.9 | You're listening to Carbon Bros. I'm Daniel Penny. |
| 0:35.3 | And I'm Amy Westerbell. |
| 0:36.8 | And that was a clip of podcaster Theo Vaughn and |
| 0:39.6 | comedian Mark Norman talking about watching Greta Toonberg's only fans. Gross. Also classic. |
| 0:47.3 | Also doesn't exist, so please don't Google it. Last time on Carbon Bros, we traveled back in time |
| 0:52.8 | to unspool the connections between masculinity and the |
| 0:56.9 | domination of women in the natural world. And we took a whistlestop tour of the latest in 17th century |
| 1:03.5 | thinking, like man's dominion over the creatures of the earth and women. The doctrine of discovery. |
| 1:10.6 | And the sanctity of private property. |
| 1:14.6 | Keep off the grass. |
| 1:16.5 | And we ended with a gusher on petro-masculinity. |
| 1:20.8 | This idea that modern manliness with its obsession with cars in particular is just |
| 1:26.7 | premised on light, sweet, crude, |
| 1:29.9 | and why some men will defend to the death |
| 1:33.4 | their right to burn down the planet. |
| 1:36.0 | From my cold dead hands! |
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