Joint CSER/CEENRG webinar with Dr Luca Mavelli

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• Dr Luca Mavelli
• Tuesday 26 November 2024, 11:00-12:00
• Syndics Room, 17 Mill Lane.

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With great power comes great responsibility’: Climate change and the politics of simulation of the oil industry.

In recent years, research on how oil companies have misled the public and deflected responsibilities for climate change has surged. Existing scholarship has shown how, since the mid-2000s, the oil industry has shifted from a strategy of denialism/manufacturing doubt to greenwashing and framing climate change as a consumer-driven risk. I argue that a second shift is happening: the oil industry is re-framing climate change as a collective responsibility that can be primarily addressed by the oil industry itself. Drawing on Baudrillard’s concept of simulation, I contend that the goal is not just masking reality (by questioning climate change, greenwashing, or blaming consumers) but establishing a simulated reality in which oil companies lead the fight against climate change. Moving from Al Jaber’s controversial appointment as COP28 president, I explore how in this simulated reality the existential question of climate change has been dissolved and resurrected in the logic of the market and the impact of this development on extreme climate scenarios.

This talk is part of the CSER Public Lectures series.

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