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</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If you were to ask me how I wanted to spend my week, I can think of few things I would enjoy less than spending it among people who tried to sell the former guy a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RedneckRave/posts/country-rapper-makes-song-about-donald-trump/2620535611390928/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">"campaign theme song</a>" and spend a lot of time celebrating the idea of mixing "mudding" (which is actually somewhat enjoyable) with drunk driving, combined with assaulting women and maybe slashing a throat here and there. If you ask me, that sounds far more like the plot in a horror movie than anything I want to join in on. But<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/redneck-rave-descends-into-throat-slashing-impalements-and-mass-arrests" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" title="" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"> in Kentucky's Blue Holler Offroad Park, that's exactly the kind of action attendees were welcome to enjoy</a>. Welcome home, Mitch McConnell!</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What more could you ask for, reallly? There are certainly attendees who were not on a Biden-hating bring-back-the-confederacy tilt, but a quick search of Facebook and YouTube turned up mostly images of vehicles with Confederate flags, pro-Trump memorabilia, or anti-Biden and anti-Harris statements. Well, hey, if you're going to roll around in the mud, I guess you might as well show who you are, really. The details are grizzly.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/redneck-rave-descends-into-throat-slashing-impalements-and-mass-arrests" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"> The Daily Beast:</a></font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1em 40px 1em -5px; border-left: 4px solid rgb(11, 13, 101); line-height: 32px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; width: 602.543px; background: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By the end of the five-day bash, dubbed the "Redneck Rave," one man had been impaled, one woman had been strangled to the point of unconsciousness, and one throat had been slit. In all, Edmonson authorities arrested 14 people, and charged four dozen people from five states.
</font></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oh my! I really want that! That sounds so entertaining! The opportunity to listen to terrible music, get yelled at by drunks, and then impaled. <em>Awesome</em>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/redneck-rave-party-ends-48-145900932.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Yahoo News goes into depth</a>:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1em 40px 1em -5px; border-left: 4px solid rgb(11, 13, 101); line-height: 32px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; width: 602.543px; background: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A five-day party in Kentucky ended in 14 arrests and 48 people charged with drug and alcohol, traffic, and assault-related offenses over their participation in what was billed as an occasion of "mud, music, and mayhem."
Numerous others were cited by police, and some were injured after partygoers descended on Blue Holler Offroad Park in Edmonson County from June 16-20 for the <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/redneck-rave-2021-tickets-138026997465?fbclid=IwAR2fkFo2m8ONtmpN0SOuCNuVVj55CP84904kBeZ38hgSd4e5U7uVG44sfpY#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">"Redneck Rave,"</a> an event that reportedly was held twice last year and during which one person died.
"The first vehicle that came through, we found meth, marijuana, and an open alcohol container," Sheriff Shane Doyle, who set up checkpoints in anticipation of trouble, <a href="https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/crime/article252276858.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">said</a>, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. "And then one of the occupants had two active warrants ... We were like, 'Well, this doesn't bode well for the weekend.'"
</font></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Doesn't bode well for the weekend? Just the weekend? I worry it doesn't bode well for the hometowns where the attendees will be returning if they aren't still locked up or in recovery programs.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I guess only one sentiment sums up my reaction:</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></p></div><div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/don-jr-posts-photos-of-his-assault-rifle-bearing-ancient-symbol-of-war-with-islam-now-used-by-white-supremacists-experts/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/don-jr-posts-photos-of-his-assault-rifle-bearing-ancient-symbol-of-war-with-islam-now-used-by-white-supremacists-experts/</a></font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>==</div><div>...<div><div id="section4-0305829818775817" class="NLM_sec NLM_sec_level_1" style="line-height: 26px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 26px; margin-left: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Another recent trend, ‘rollin’ coal’</b>, exemplifies fossil fuel violence experienced as masculinised power. Rollin’ coal means retro-fitting a diesel truck so that its engine can be flooded with excess gas, producing thick plumes of black smoke.<b> Coal, which is not actually burned, functions as a symbol of industrial power expressed as pollution. </b>The truck becomes its own mini-factory, complete with belching smokestacks; the driver becomes a coal baron. Rollin’ coal has long been popular in the world of diesel truck racing, but in 2014, the practice emerged on roadways as a conservative protest against environmentalism, the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and, soon after, anti-Trump protesters.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 26px; margin-left: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It is difficult to estimate its frequency, but rollin’ coal has become common enough that some states, including New Jersey, Maryland and Colorado, have passed measures specifically banning it;</b><sup><a class="ref fn" id="fn66-0305829818775817">66</a></sup> the Colorado Health and Environment Department also set up a ‘smoke school’ that trains police officers in enforcing the ban.<sup><a class="ref fn" id="fn67-0305829818775817">67</a></sup> Instagram has over 300,000 posts on two of its largest rollin’ coal streams,<sup><a class="ref fn" id="fn68-0305829818775817">68</a></sup> while tens of thousands of user-generated videos show (mostly) men blasting smoke at bikers, protesters, and hybrid cars, especially Priuses, as ‘Prius repellent’ against hybrid cars that have become widely recognised as symbols of green consumerism. Gender and race also play a role in target selection; it has become popular to roll coal at ‘rice-burners’ (Asian-made cars)<sup><a class="ref fn" id="fn69-0305829818775817">69</a></sup> and unsuspecting women pedestrians (‘hot girls’).<sup><a class="ref fn" id="fn70-0305829818775817">70</a></sup> One commentator fittingly called the videos ‘pollution porn’.<sup><a class="ref fn" id="fn71-0305829818775817">71</a></sup> Hyper-masculine discourse surrounds the practice (‘It’s just a testosterone thing. It’s manhood’, Sean Miller told <i>Slate</i> magazine).<sup><a class="ref fn" id="fn72-0305829818775817">72</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 26px; margin-left: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Spectators and coal rollers express pleasure in the noise, the smell, and the beauty of the smoke, all of which give them a sensation of power that, not coincidentally I suggest, is directly related to the smoke’s violent effects. One man told <i>Vice News</i> that people roll coal because it feels good: ‘When you sit there and you can hear and you can see the horsepower, it does something to people around here. It makes them giddy. It happens naturally, but there’s an awe effect’.<sup><a class="ref fn" id="fn73-0305829818775817">73</a></sup> The <i>Denver Post</i> described rollin’ coal as ‘a way to have fun at the expense of other people’<sup><a class="ref fn" id="fn74-0305829818775817">74</a></sup> – a fitting description of the desires animating petro-masculinity.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 26px; margin-left: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Whether it is the Proud Boys who proclaim white, Western chauvinism, or the coal rollers who revel in conspicuous pollution,<sup><a class="ref fn" id="fn75-0305829818775817">75</a></sup> Trump’s brand of fossil authoritarianism feels good because it bursts the constraints of liberal, Western hypocrisy.</b> Despite the occasional pretence of innocence, fossil authoritarianism gets its kicks precisely because fossil fuel consumption has become undeniably destructive in an era of global warming. Controlling fossil fuels, and being controlled by fossil fuels, comes to feel good as a practice of power/being overpowered, especially because it has become a game of life and death, of flirting with apocalypse. Fossil violence is brought into the light and celebrated – a welcome respite from the guilt, resignation, and often paralysis that otherwise grip the West in the face of global warming. The circle of concern has been narrowed, in a satisfyingly simple moral taxonomy, to the pleasures of the white <i>paterfamilias</i>, who will be the sole guarantor of the welfare of his legitimate household members (e.g. white women, pets, trucks, white children, white neighbours). The <i>paterfamilias</i> is justified in using every tool at his disposal – coal, oil, survivalist bunkers, guns, border walls – to secure his household against insurgent others.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 26px; margin-left: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When petro-masculinity is at stake, climate denial is thus best understood through desire, rather than as a failure of scientific communication or reason. In other words, an attachment to the righteousness of fossil fuel lifestyles, and to all the hierarchies that depend upon fossil fuel, produces a desire to not just deny, but to refuse climate change. Refusing climate change is distinct from ignoring climate change, which is effectively what many people who otherwise acknowledge its reality do.<sup><a class="ref fn" id="fn76-0305829818775817">76</a></sup> Ignoring can be dangerous, too, but it is a passive disposition, often connected to emotions of frustration or confusion, or even fear. Refusal is active. Angry. It demands struggle. In the case of climate change, by refusing it, one also subscribes to an accelerated investment in petrocultures. Refusal can no longer rest at defending the <i>status quo</i> but must proceed to intensifying fossil fuel systems to the last moment, which will often require resorting to authoritarian politics.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 26px; margin-left: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The concept of petro-masculinity alerts us to additional psycho-political catalysts that might fuel armed lifeboat politics in the West. More specifically, authoritarian desires are likely to be aroused not only by the appearance of the Other at the gates – e.g. climate refugees from the global South – but also as a reaction to perceived enemies within the state, both human and nonhuman. This can include poor people of colour in hurricane-ravaged cities like New Orleans or Houston, or feminist and ecojustice movements as they strive to undermine toxic masculinity and fuels; it might also include global warming, mega-storms, ocean acidification, fish die-offs, and other phenomena that appear as an affront to fossil fuel resilience. In addition to the possibility of violence levied against the poor, we should also be alert to moments in which gender-based and climate change-induced violence appear simultaneously, wherein the reinforcement of gender binaries or heteronormativity works alongside the armouring of lifeboats.</font></p></div><div id="section5-0305829818775817" class="NLM_sec NLM_sec-type_conclusions NLM_sec_level_1" style="line-height: 26px;"><a name="i9" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><div class="sectionInfo" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow: hidden;"><a name="i9" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><h2 class="sectionHeading" style="margin-bottom: 0px; float: none;"><a name="i9" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="font-weight: 400; padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="i9" style="font-weight: 400; padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;" /><a name="_i9" style="padding-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conclusion: Fossil Fuel Violence and Misogyny</font></a></h2></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 26px; margin-left: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fossil-fuelled life has always been violent, but much effort has been expended to make the suffering subterranean, and to render it as invisible as possible to privileged American consumers. However, the industrial, capitalist system built to hide its waste, with its subterranean pipes, shunted refuse, oceanic dumps and accounting fantasies, is breaking down. Death is overwhelming the seawalls and flooding back into the carefully sanitised cores of privilege. The Western belief in the impenetrable body, and of those bodies being ‘tucked up like little hobbits into the safety of our burrow’, as Timothy Morton charmingly describes it, has become increasingly difficult to maintain.<sup><a class="ref fn" id="fn77-0305829818775817">77</a></sup></font></p><p style="line-height: 26px; margin-left: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Leakages can be met with either receptivity or hostility. Most environmentally-sensitive scholars and activists are attempting the former. The goal is to develop an ethics, and an emotional capacity, for living on an earth marked by radical change and periodic mass deaths, while avoiding an escape into either nihilism or transcendentalism.<sup><a class="ref fn" id="fn78-0305829818775817">78</a></sup> A host of creative proposals are emerging, all of them seeking lifeways that are less anthropocentric, and better attuned to death and decay: living ‘amid the capitalist ruins’,<sup><a class="ref fn" id="fn79-0305829818775817">79</a></sup> ‘posthumous life’,<sup><a class="ref fn" id="fn80-0305829818775817">80</a></sup> ‘learning to die in the Anthropocene’,<sup><a class="ref fn" id="fn81-0305829818775817">81</a></sup> ‘trying to perish better’,<sup><a class="ref fn" id="fn82-0305829818775817">82</a></sup> ‘loving your monsters’,<sup><a class="ref fn" id="fn83-0305829818775817">83</a></sup> queer futurity and failure, making kin instead of babies,<sup><a class="ref fn" id="fn84-0305829818775817">84</a></sup> or art as ‘grief-work’ for ‘after the end of the world’.<sup><a class="ref fn" id="fn85-0305829818775817">85</a></sup></font></p><p style="line-height: 26px; margin-left: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">However, grief work can be decidedly unappealing, especially when avoidance tactics are readily available. The key problem that confronts these proposals is that of desire. While this difficulty is duly appreciated, we have only begun to imagine alternative desiring strategies for the new Earth. The permeability of our bodies and the leaky waste that pervades modern life may be the reality of our existence, and we may even believe that we should attend to them, but they can disgust more than they seduce. As the leakages multiply, and neoliberal tactics falter, the desire to shore up the body, and the state, can become an authoritarian urge, an obsession with a purified future. Life in the ruins is as likely to invoke rage as generosity.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Rollin’ coal and other methods of fossil fuel burning become tempting weapons for seeking vengeance against the forces that threaten petro-patriarchal orders.</span></font></p><p style="line-height: 26px; margin-left: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fossil violence most obviously punishes the Earth (ever allied to femininity in the Western imagination), but it should also be appreciated as a misogynist tactic, if we follow Kate Manne to think of misogyny not as an individual belief – the hatred of women – but instead as a set of practices, as ‘the system that polices and enforces’ the norms of patriarchal rule</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="ref fn" id="fn86-0305829818775817">86</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Manne argues that the traditional definition of misogyny, as an extreme belief, makes it overly difficult to declare its presence. We become mired in debates over a perpetrator’s true meanings and intentions. However, if misogyny is instead understood as a policing practice, the focus moves from decoding the misogynist’s worldviews to detailing the suffering of its targets, making room for structural as well as direct manifestations of violence. Using Manne’s logic of misogyny, it becomes far easier to recognise, and contest, the pattern of omnipresent aggression experienced by women and others deemed to be gender deviants.</span></font></p></div></div></div></div>