Excellent piece. A nice, tightly focused read. I thought your close could have been a little more "on point".

Your through-line argument has been about the increasing attacks on women and POC who are raising the alarm on the Climate Crisis. How the "catastrophists" media space is dominated by privileged White Guys who always advocate for "individual response" instead of "collective response".

So, perhaps it would have been stronger to close with,

"Doomsday all you want. Be chicken little. Whatever you do, just don't let them catch you trying to organize people. Trying to get people to give a damn.

Then you're in trouble."

Maybe bring it home a little harder.

Other than that, total agreement with your message. This is, in a way, not unsurprising. For all their talk of "doom" and "threats" these guys are hucksters. They are selling something.

They desperately want the status quo to continue. If real Crisis and Collapse are happening they have no jobs. They are incentivized to attack anyone, who says anything, that casts real doubt on the future of the status quo.

The misogyny and racism is just White Guys being White Guys. This is the way the majority of them have always been. About 7 out of 10 White Guys who voted in 2020, voted for Trump.

Why would you expect anything better from them?