Here are 6 reasons why we need a truly queer environmental movement

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LGBTQIA+ people are among the most impacted by the climate crisis

Queerness offers a much-needed fresh perspective.

Being a queer environmental movement means standing alongside feminism, and any efforts to dismantle the patriarchy and redefine these roles.

“Queer ecology” is about seeing with new eyes, challenging the biases we bring to nature and redefining what we see as “natural”.

Governments, corporate and economic globalisation, science and technology – are all shaped by the cultural norms of the white, wealthy, western, non-disabled, male, cisgender and heterosexual.

Many queer people have forged strong connections with our own communities and networks. We have the experience of mobilising people as we fight for justice, standing in solidarity with others.

https://friendsoftheearth.uk/system-change/six-reasons-why-im-calling-queer-climate-movement

Just in case you thought queer politics cant have permeated every part of society, this shows that queerness is seen as making you superior, whilst at the same time saying you are the most marginalised.

NB - the quotes above are my extracts, not the full in depth analysis of the article!!

LOOK AT ME I AM SPESHUL

Bleurgh

I can’t take much more of this.

I am sick to the teeth with all this.

Is Pride Month over yet? I need to know if it's safe to come out.

NB - the quotes above are my extracts, not the full in depth analysis of the article!!

I think we get the gist. Thanks for reading it so I didn't have to.

Please make it stop! 😡

LGBTQIA+ people are among the most impacted by the climate crisis

I'm not reading the article, but I am trying to get my head round why this could be so. And I can't.

What a pile of shite 🙄

Me neither. I mean, if you're impacted you're impacted and your sexuality is irrelevant. I reckon it's one of those 'If we say it often enough and loudly enough people will accept it without asking for actual evidence' statements.

“LGBTQIA+ people are among the most impacted by the climate crisis.”

There was me thinking it was people who lived in areas with huge droughts, raging wildfires, flash flooding…

This shit just alienates normal people, people who don't speak academicese and old skool leftie environmentalists from the movement.

Leaving mostly trustafarians.

I used to think Friends of the Earth were either a benign or positive organisation. How did they become so open-minded their brains fell out?

The most impacted are poor people, especially those who live in the global south.

The arguments here remind me of an activist email I received after Roe v. Wade went down which said that queer people were the group most affected by abortion bans which made zero sense as that group is probably (at least) half male and because many Lesbians are in same-sex relationships.

It's a similar attempt to link this group with other causes and strengthen its place in the victim hierarchy.

As an aside, if you remove 'white' and 'Western' from their fifth reason, you get how all (or almost all) societies work: They are ruled by wealthy, non-disabled, heterosexual and 'cisgender' men.

LGBTQIA+ people are among the most impacted by the climate crisis

Wot.

Wtf are they talking about?

What @Qbish said

LOOK AT ME I AM SPESHUL

This needs to be so thoroughly ridiculed.

How do people write this with a straight face?

I don't do climate stuff anyway I'm doubly not doing queer climate stuff.

This is just going beyond silly into downright ridiculous now!

Er....

Let's re define nature to mean a pile of toxic waste. Yay! Celebrate that nature! The toxic waste is wonderful, natural and good.

Say it's good. Now. Or you're a bigot and we'll hit you.

Just in case you thought queer politics cant have permeated every part of society, this shows that queerness is seen as making you superior, whilst at the same time saying you are the most marginalised.

Mic drop! 👏🏻 That says it all. This insatiable need to keep centring the ‘queer community’ in all issues - no matter how tenuous the link - is getting embarrassing.

No, silly. It's middle class students with blue hair and a special identity - they are the most victimised ever and ever amen.

The second example linked is a man using the women's showers in 2005!

That's a deep barrel he/they scraped.

Just when you think things can't possibly get any crazier!!!

I used to vote Green. I find the science around global warming confusing and I rather lazily used to just believe activists and green politicians. Now they appear to be so wrapped up in the trans debate from an anti-science, anti-enlightenment perspective I find myself querying everything they stand for. I guess I’ve stopped trusting what they say. This kind of activism can’t be doing them any favours.

How on EARTH does being a cosplayer make you "most impacted" by environmental issues??!!

Oh PLEASE