ion of scientific, corporate, and popular narratives.She pointed out that BP Oil popularized the idea of the individual carbon footprint, effectively displacing responsibility for the climate crisis onto the individual consumer.“If fossil fuel companies have given us certain narratives, then science has also given us certain narratives,” she said.She traced pervasive historical fears about overpopulation from the British economist Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) to Darwin’s theories about competition as the engine of evolution.“These ideas from political economy and religion got baked into a biological argument that we now live with: Humans are a scourge on the planet, there are too many of us, and it’s not possible to have a just society, biologically,” said Crist.“This version of climate crisis veers into xenophobia, anti-humanism, and eco-fascism, and ignores the actual drivers of climate change—the extraction and burning of fossil fuels, inside a political and economic world order based on accumulation.Th