CNN Greening of Greenland
anecdote ·
retold in 4 talks
Žižek saw a CNN report celebrating how global warming allows vegetable growing in Greenland, illustrating how media renormalize climate catastrophe as a lifestyle opportunity.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 4
“okay, global warming, so what, there are some problems but look, in Greenland you can get salad, even some fruits”
“The obscenity of this report is not only that it focuses on the minor benefits of a global catastrophe.”
“The title was 'The Greening of Greenland'. It's wonderful it's so hot they can now first time in hundreds of years grow vegetables there”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Louis Aragon2Damir Arsenijević2Laurent de Sutter2Germaine Greer2Simone de Beauvoir2Pablo Picasso2Daniel Cohn-Bendit2Roland Barthes2
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Every retelling 4
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