This logic undermines the elements that are most needed to survive disasters: care, social trust, and mutual aid. As the already vulnerable suffer from climate catastrophes, those who are protected and already powerful will increase their domination, especially if they do so under the guise of the “benevolent patriarch” that promises to protect us from disorder.

Thus, the climate crisis is more likely to lead to the intensification of current power structures, globally and within nations. Drawing upon Iris Marion Young’s “logic of masculinist protection” I argue that the fear of social collapse tends to make us seek protection by giving more power to those in charge of the political system, while we lose trust in each other.

The current climate crisis is terrifying, but what we should fear is not the collapse of social order as we know it but its continuation. This lecture argues that this fear might be misguided. Social collapse is also a prevalent theme in in contemporary culture and popular entertainment. For some scholars, the collapse of human civilisation and even human extinction are real possibilities. We are already seeing the disastrous consequences of the climate crisis around the planet, and as global carbon emissions keep rising the future is uncertain.

Ole Martin Sandberg is the first lecturer of the RIKK and GRÓ-GEST Lecture Series for Spring 2020 with a lecture entitled “Climate Crisis and “the Logic of Masculinist Protection.”” The lecture will be held Thursday 23 January, 12:00-13:00, at the Lecture Hall of the National Museum.

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