There’s a massive danger to Earth, uncovered by !Scientists!:
Men are bad for the planet, a controversial new study has claimed.
Researchers from 13 countries have joined forces on a new paper, titled ‘Men, masculinities, and the planet at the end of (M)Anthropocene.’ According to the experts, men tend to have a greater carbon footprint than women, largely through travel, transportation, and tourism. Blokes are also less concerned with climate change – and less willing to change their everyday practices to fix it.
No shit. We’re too busy building stuff, moving stuff, drilling for stuff and in general making the planet habitable for everyone. But wait, we’re doing even MOAR Evil Things!
In addition, typically ‘manly’ activities negatively impact both the environment and the climate. This includes things like fishing and hunting, as well as meat consumption. ‘Men tend to be more involved in owning, managing, controlling heavy, chemical, carbon–based, industrialized agriculture, high environmental impact and extractive industries, and of course militarism, with its own devastating environmental effects.’
However did they miss “car racing”? And only in the fevered mind of academia would hunting and fishing be a danger to the environment, when any fule kno that practitioners of the above are the most ardent supporters of environmental protection.
Of course, it’s all dressed up in the usual pseudo-scientific gobbledegook:
Professor Jeff Hearn, professor of sociology in Huddersfield’s Department of Social and Psychological Sciences, said: ‘There is now plenty of research that shows clear negative impacts of some men’s behavior on the environment and climate. What is astonishing is how this aspect does not figure in most debate and policy in a more sustainable world.’
That’s because “most debate and policy” concerns itself with more important issues, such as whether Sidney Sweeney’s ever going to do OnlyFans.
On that topic: they also missed “wanking”. I’m not sure how that lovely activity is linked to Global Warming Climate Cooling Change©, but I am sure that as we speak there is a group of some asshole “scientists” busy working on a (taxpayer-funded) study on the topic.
People are being paid — in thirteen countries, no less — to produce bullshit like this.
Fach.