Wealth and social privilege ‘challenged by climate change’

Climate change denial is not based on science but reflects a political ideology based around unchecked exploitation of the planet’s resources, a University of Auckland academic has said.

Neal Curtis, associate professor in media and communications with the university’s arts faculty, suggests that climate change challenges “deeply held assumptions” about wealth and social privilege.

In an editorial published by the New Zealand independent online media outlet Newsroom, he says that climate change exposes human vulnerability and the myth that we are separate from the natural world.