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Culture Study Podcast

How the Manosphere Fuels Climate Change Denial

Culture Study Podcast

Culture Study Podcast

Arts, Society & Culture

4.5 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

What does masculinity have to do with climate change denial? F-ing everything! Daniel Penny, host of the new Drilled podcast Carbon Bros, joins me to answer all of your questions about how the Manosphere and its ideologies of dominion, virility, control, and anti-wokeness collide with climate change narratives. We talk about petro-masculinity, of course, but also how environmentalism became “feminized,” the intersection with “muscular” Christianity, the Spotted Owl, fear of the electric truck, and how the Trump Administration has successfully exploited fears of a cucked, climate-focused nation. This one will piss you off and give you a lot to think about.Thanks to the sponsors of today’s episode!Get 35% off the best blankets of all time at LolaBlankets.com, using code CULTURE at checkoutBlueland is offering 15% off your first order of cleaning products at Blueland.com/CULTURETry OneSkin with 15% off using code CULTURE at oneskin.coIf you’re in the market for a beautiful new sofa, dining table or bed, find something beautiful and long-lasting at Article.com.Show Notes:You can listen to CARBON BROS and find out more about the podcast hereFind more of Daniel’s work here and listen to other episodes of Non-Toxic (and the newsletter) hereA bunch of Chad memes that may or may not elucidate Chad-nessDaniel references Dr. Sophie Bjork-James’s work — find out more about it hereMy interview with Kristin Kobez Du Mez on White Christian NationalismI reference my reporting on North Idaho & the spotted owl — it’s in this big featureThe ridiculous “premature electrification” Super Bowl truck commercial:FROM THE AAA: My piece on What Makes Women CleanYour Cleaning StoryWe’re currently looking for your questions for future episodes about:BIG KOREAN ENERGY with Mash-Up Americans (Their framework for questions: What is this Korean vibe everywhere in culture, in food, in beauty, in politics? Definitely not complaining, but maybe confused? Well. Do we have the explainer for all of you Korean Americans, Korean Koreans, and everyone who is adjacent to Korean culture -- which is everyone. What are YOUR questions?)Cultural panics with THE Sarah MarshallContemporary Dating Culture!!! Why does it suck, how can it suck less! (with Jonquilyn Hill)All things Love is Blind with Audie CornishEldest daughter discourseAn ADULT HOBBIES crossover episode with Forever35!The sociology of NAMES (naming trends, naming assumptions)WEIRD ENGLISH WORDS (where do they come from!) with Colin Gorrie, who writes explainers like this one on the word DOGAnything you need advice or want musings on for the AAA segment. You can ask about anything, it’s literally the name of the segment!As always, you can submit them (and ideas for future eps) hereFor this week’s discussion: Where have you seen anti-climate-change masculinity pop up in your own life? Commercials, relatives, IG feeds — tell us about it.

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. I've got some updates on episodes that we've added to our recording schedule,

0:04.5

including one that we're doing on cultural panics with Culture Study Fave Sarah Marshall.

0:10.0

She's the host of the amazing podcast you're wrong about. So you can absolutely ask about

0:15.4

specific cultural panics, but you can also get into the origins and motivations of them all.

0:22.1

We're also working on an episode that our guests have suggested we call Big Korean Energy. Maybe you're noticing

0:27.2

Korean skincare everywhere, or your kids are obsessed with K-pop demon hunters, or your Trader

0:31.9

Joe's is always sold out of Frozen Kimbop. What questions do you have about the popularity at all?

0:36.7

This is for people who are

0:38.6

Korean Americans, people who are not Korean Americans, people who are Korean-Korean, anyone and

0:43.9

everyone. And just to rattle off a few more, I'm just going to read the list on our scheduling

0:47.9

doc. Adult hobbies, love is blind, dating culture, criminal profiling, eldest daughter discourse, sociology of names, weird English words, and all things audiobook.

1:00.1

And maybe Charming Potato, aka. Channing Tatum, if we can get someone to co-host.

1:04.6

We've tried Roxanne Gay. We've received no response. If you have a hookup with Roxanne Gay, please get her to come on the pod.

1:11.4

And if you didn't know, we keep a running list of what we're working on in the show notes, so you can always

1:15.7

check there. Submit your questions for any of these subjects or for the askin anything at

1:20.8

culturestudypod.com. All right. Thanks, everyone, and enjoy today's show.

1:27.4

Daniel, can you describe in detail the art for the podcast, like the cover image that shows up when people look up the podcast?

1:37.1

So I've been spending a lot of time in some dank corners of the internet for research, not just for pleasure.

1:47.3

And it's really the male grievance world, the manosphere, whatever you want to call it.

1:54.4

It's really a culture that exists online and that communicates through memes.

1:59.6

And I wanted to embrace that for the purposes of our artwork.

2:04.0

And I kind of do something that brought all of these symbols and messages and injokes into one

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