Environmental politics needs a third path between local experiments and macro-association

Evidence

Increasingly, partisans of a radical ecology are trying to get out of the binary alternatives that have been such a burden over the last decades as they impose an exclusive choice between potentially brilliant but strictly local concrete alternative experiments, and vague attempts at macropolitical association that are doomed to end in disavowal. At a time when, despite all the local initiatives, global and irreversible threats are already starting to affect our immediate environment, an ecology of attention to ecology absolutely must come up with an excluded third that will build a bridge between the joint attention of collective movements and the collective attention of media flows. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 349

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘excluded third’ bridging local joint attention and media collective attention parallels the additive/totalizing attention spectrum the reader has tracked across this book. — connects to: Local problems motivate environmental action more than abstract global harms — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2949; Spatial-temporal disconnect makes environmental conservation an abstraction not a necessity — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2529; Meaningful political change requires collaboration beyond individual and identity-group effort — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 1075 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Working politics requires coordinating local struggles with a global totalizing dimension #corroborates (0.95) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 713
• Local problems motivate environmental action more than abstract global harms #qualifies (0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2949
• Spatial-temporal disconnect makes environmental conservation an abstraction not a necessity #corroborates (0.80) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2529
• Meaningful political change requires collaboration beyond individual and identity-group effort #expands (0.75) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1075