On Thursday, May 28, DeSmog will co-host Masculinity and the Metacrisis, an online event featuring climate journalist Amy Westervelt, philosopher Cadell Last, Resonant Man co-founder Jacob Kishere and Indra Adnan, a psychosocial therapist, author and founder of The Alternative Global.
Staged in partnership with the Centre for Climate Psychology and the Resonant Man, the panel will explore how the climate crisis is also a crisis of modern men — and ask how we can give rise to new forms of masculinity oriented towards planetary health. For details and bookings click here.
From the revelations in the Epstein Files to the misogynistic influencers featured in the Inside the Mansopshere documentary by Louis Theroux, to attacks on women’s rights under the Trump administration and CNN’s shocking report on an ‘online rape academy‘, abuses of power by men have rarely been more visible.
At the same time, many men are questioning the inherited patriarchal models of masculinity fuelling the climate crisis and a host of other environmental and social ills, seeking to integrate nobler qualities of service, stewardship and protection of the vulnerable into the idea of what it means to be man.
In an interview co-published with Unthinkable ahead of our Masculinity and the Metacrisis event, Matthew Green, DeSmog’s global investigations editor, spoke to Indra Adnan about the historical roots of familiar forms of masculinity rooted in competition, dominance and accumulation. Indra argues that these models suppressed male relationality and emotions, cauterising many men’s ability to engage holistically with both community and nature.
