{"title":"Lights Out","authors":"Alex Beasley","doi":"10.1353/scu.2022.0046","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay frames the author’s experience of Winter Storm Uri in Texas in 2021 as a moment that rehearses future climate events. The essay argues that the event illuminates the ways in which narratives about scarcity and sacrifice obscure the causes and the stakes of climate change’s present and future dislocations. The author suggests that the short-term calculations and thin margins incentivized by profit-seeking in energy markets are inextricable from human-caused ecological destruction. Moreover, the consequences of the pursuit of profit are directly linked to the lived experience of extreme weather events. Thus understanding and addressing profit-based incentives must be at the core of our response to climate change.","PeriodicalId":42657,"journal":{"name":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SOUTHERN CULTURES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2022.0046","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This essay frames the author’s experience of Winter Storm Uri in Texas in 2021 as a moment that rehearses future climate events. The essay argues that the event illuminates the ways in which narratives about scarcity and sacrifice obscure the causes and the stakes of climate change’s present and future dislocations. The author suggests that the short-term calculations and thin margins incentivized by profit-seeking in energy markets are inextricable from human-caused ecological destruction. Moreover, the consequences of the pursuit of profit are directly linked to the lived experience of extreme weather events. Thus understanding and addressing profit-based incentives must be at the core of our response to climate change.
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In the foreword to the first issue of the The Southern Literary Journal, published in November 1968, founding editors Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and C. Hugh Holman outlined the journal"s objectives: "To study the significant body of southern writing, to try to understand its relationship to the South, to attempt through it to understand an interesting and often vexing region of the American Union, and to do this, as far as possible, with good humor, critical tact, and objectivity--these are the perhaps impossible goals to which The Southern Literary Journal is committed." Since then The Southern Literary Journal has published hundreds of essays by scholars of southern literature examining the works of southern writers and the ongoing development of southern culture.
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