The rise of ‘populism’, often conflated with authoritarianism, is frequently viewed as being antagonistic to environmental values, where the latter are associated with ‘liberal elites’. However, with a less pejorative understanding of populism, we might be able to identify elements within that can be usefully channelled and mobilised towards the urgent rescue of human and non-human life. This paper seeks to illuminate a ‘green populism’ using Hannah Arendt’s analysis of the tension between science and politics. In Arendt’s account, Western philosophy and science is predicated on a rejection of the mortal realm of politics, in search of eternal laws of nature. However, the pressing mortality of nature has pushed it back into the political realm, shrinking the distance between science and politics. Where nature itself is defined by its mortality, environmentalism and political action acquire a common logic, that could fuel a participatory, green populism.

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绿色民粹主义？人类世的行动与死亡

“民粹主义”的兴起，常常与威权主义混为一谈，经常被视为与环境价值观背道而驰，后者与“自由精英”联系在一起。然而，通过对民粹主义不那么贬义的理解，我们或许能够确定其中的元素，这些元素可以被有效地引导和动员起来，以紧急拯救人类和非人类的生命。本文试图利用汉娜·阿伦特对科学与政治之间紧张关系的分析来阐明“绿色民粹主义”。在阿伦特的叙述中，西方哲学和科学的基础是拒绝政治的凡人领域，寻求永恒的自然法则。然而，迫在眉睫的自然死亡将其推回了政治领域，缩小了科学与政治的距离。自然本身被它的死亡所定义，