Peak Libido
Peak Libido What is the carbon footprint of your libido?In this highly original book, Dominic Pettman examines the mutual influence and impact of human desire and ecological crisis. The advent of the…
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Peak Libido
What is the carbon footprint of your libido?In this highly original book, Dominic Pettman examines the mutual influence and impact of human desire and ecological crisis. The advent of the Anthropocene leads to the decline of eros, the weakening of the link between sexual pleasure and human reproduction, and thus, potentially, to human extinction. His account is premised on a simple but startling observation: the decline of libido among the world's population, the loss of the human sex drive, closely tracks the destruction of environments worldwide.
The environmental crisis of our time is also, and simultaneously, a crisis of human reproduction and of interpersonal intimacy. Our capacity to care for one another in any meaningful way is being replaced by a restless, technologically-enhanced zombie drive. What Freud called 'libidinal economy' has morphed into libidinal