I will, in fact, die mad about it
Feb. 5th, 2025 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI'm working on my essay about Crow Country, and I managed to depress the hell out of myself with this paragraph...
Alongside her descriptions of futuristic music videos and stylish Apple computers, Colette Shade devotes a considerable portion of her book Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything to a discussion of how environmentalism, once a bipartisan issue, became politically polarizing. Despite widespread public campaigns to “save the rainforests” and “save the ozone layer” augmented by the messaging of high-profile animation like FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) and Captain Planet (1993-6), the dismantling of environmental protections became one of the key platforms of the Republican party. In 2000, Vice President Al Gore ran a presidential campaign advocating for investment in technologies that would help the country combat and perhaps even reverse the effects of climate change. He lost, and national priorities soon shifted to the pursuit of overseas military actions.
...and I still think it's deeply upsetting how the United States went straight from "save the whales" to "murder the Muslims." This timeline is so fucked.
ETA: Colette Shade's Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything is interesting, by the way. It's marketed as "a quirky and poignant memoir," but that's bullshit. The book is actually a critical media analysis with razor-sharp insight into American popular culture in the 1990s, and I really enjoyed reading it.
Alongside her descriptions of futuristic music videos and stylish Apple computers, Colette Shade devotes a considerable portion of her book Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything to a discussion of how environmentalism, once a bipartisan issue, became politically polarizing. Despite widespread public campaigns to “save the rainforests” and “save the ozone layer” augmented by the messaging of high-profile animation like FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) and Captain Planet (1993-6), the dismantling of environmental protections became one of the key platforms of the Republican party. In 2000, Vice President Al Gore ran a presidential campaign advocating for investment in technologies that would help the country combat and perhaps even reverse the effects of climate change. He lost, and national priorities soon shifted to the pursuit of overseas military actions.
...and I still think it's deeply upsetting how the United States went straight from "save the whales" to "murder the Muslims." This timeline is so fucked.
ETA: Colette Shade's Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything is interesting, by the way. It's marketed as "a quirky and poignant memoir," but that's bullshit. The book is actually a critical media analysis with razor-sharp insight into American popular culture in the 1990s, and I really enjoyed reading it.
