White, politically conservative males in the United States have been widely found to maintain petro‐masculine attitudes that include aspects of racism, misogyny, and climate change denial. These beliefs and their associated behaviors, including climate destructiveness, can be conceptualized as compensatory reactions to modern‐day racial, gender, and climate‐related anxieties that are experienced as threats to traditional white male privilege and power. They then manifest as and energize authoritarian desires and their associated sociopolitical movements, including the current Republican effort to Make American Great Again. This paper utilizes psychoanalytic concepts concerning individual and large‐group identity, group psychodynamics and processes, and the intergenerational transmission of idealized myth and fantasy to further elucidate and expand upon these complex phenomena. It then suggests specific strategies for disentangling the strong links between white hegemonic masculinity, fossil fuel use, and climate change denial, thus opening doors to alternative, non climate‐destructive yet still empowering notions of individual, large‐group, and national identity that are, instead, based in communal concern and climate care.

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在政治上保守的白人白人中，男性石油气和气候变化被否定

在美国，政治上比较保守的白人男性被广泛认为持有石油男性主义的态度，包括种族主义，厌女症和否认气候变化等方面。这些信念及其相关行为，包括气候破坏性，可以概念化为对现代种族，性别和与气候相关的焦虑的补偿性反应，这些焦虑被视为对传统白人男性特权和权力的威胁。然后，它们体现并激发了威权主义的愿望及其相关的社会政治运动，包括当前的共和党为使美国再次伟大而进行的努力。本文利用有关个体和大群体身份，群体心理动力学和过程的心理分析概念，以及理想化神话和幻想的代际传播，以进一步阐明和扩展这些复杂现象。然后，它提出了一些特殊的策略，以解开白人霸权气概，化石燃料的使用与否定气候变化之间的紧密联系，从而为另类的，对气候没有破坏性的，但仍赋予个人，大集团和民族身份的观念打开了大门，而是基于社区关注和气候关怀。