Cruel Optimism: Affect Theory and the Structure of Feeling
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The Pleasure of Turning Away From the Climate Crisis
I think you're incredibly on point to point out the pleasure aspect of turning away. To find any way to be able to rationalize your way out of that to turn away from it I think yeah there's pleasure in that for sure. Although ultimately as you said the long-term consequences are eventually going to show up at your front door if you can bury your head in the sand until that very moment then you'll be maybe a little bit more happy, he says.
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