The global taboo of hydrocarbon culture: “There is no climate change”
Journal: Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks
Year: 2019

This chapter focuses on climate change discourse and denial of anthropogenic climate change in Russia; how the Russian hydrocarbon culture positions itself regarding the climate question. The argument is that the Putin regime’s increasing dependence on hydrocarbons makes serious climate mitigation policy an impossibility. The inability to address the negative consequences of the chosen fossil fuel-based economic policy, and the social contract to which this economy is tied, pushes the regime to