‘Petro-masculinity’ is destroying the planet. Can eco-masculinity help save it? Coined by political scientist Cara Daggett, “petro-masculinity” describes a pernicious fusion between fossil fuel use, climate change denial, and defense of authoritarian white patriarchal masculinity.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/22/masculinity-gender-climate-crisis
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Don’t for a second think every morning as I go to work I don’t say – “I am all that is man, see me bike.”
But ya, it’s weird masculinity has been tied to what it has. Being in NE NY I view masculinity as the Vermont fly shop owner who’s grown the majority of his own food for 30 years. Or my mentor who is a fierce “recycler” of all things tools/equipment/etc that would’ve otherwise been thrown away and instead used to build beautiful bamboo fly rods.
It’s out there, we just need to figure out how to make the incentives of society put our effort and attention in the right direction.
Coupling gender to anything is part of the issue. Trying to flip to eco-masculinity (whatever that would look like) is just the opposite side of the issue coin.
*Any* gender can, and should, abandon the petrostate.
What a braindead title
The petrophiles
This is why I really love Joey Santore (Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t) and Jessie Dickson (SacramentoFoodForest). I think they’re great examples of “eco-masculinity” — even though I didn’t know that was a term or a real thing until just now
Yeah. Its definitely a trend. The underlying theme here is the delusional sense of unthethered dominion over whatever it is they desire. The, “F you, I got mine”… The “drill, baby, drill”, “get outta MY country” etc
Entitlement on highest.
I can’t hear you with my Buddha Box on my head.