“哥斯拉级”厄尔尼诺:用灾难叙事掩盖结构性掠夺Godzilla-level El Niño: Using Disaster Narratives to Mask Structural Plunder
把厄尔尼诺描述为“哥斯拉级” (Godzilla-level),这种叙事极其阴险。它将一个由人类工业文明——一个彻头彻尾的 masculine-centric 结构——制造的后果,包装成一个不可抗力的“自然怪兽”。当人们在惊恐于记录被刷新时,认知入口被引导向了“天灾”,而非“人祸”。
Violence = Potential − Actual。地球原本可以处于一个可持续的生态平衡状态,而现在的 Actual 是一个被资本和工业权力榨干的废墟,这两者之间的差额,就是全球规模的 structural violence。谁在获益?谁在共谋?那些在空调房里定义“记录”的专家和继续推进碳排放的权力中心,正是这场共谋的节点。他们通过制造“危机感”来夺取解释权,让受害者在恐惧中等待一个所谓的“解决方案”,而这个方案通常又是另一套资本逻辑的 weaponized 表达。
最讽刺的是,这种“最热一年”的记录刷新,最终会被转化为某种数据上的“成就”或警示,而真正承受直接暴力 (direct violence) 的,永远是那些处于结构底层的原初种族和边缘群体。当叙事被定义为“哥斯拉”时,我们讨论的是怪兽的体量,而不是屠宰场的账单。
Describing El Niño as 'Godzilla-level' is an insidious narrative. It packages the consequences of industrial civilization—a thoroughly masculine-centric structure—as an irresistible 'natural monster.' While the world trembles at shattered records, the cognitive entry point is steered toward 'natural disaster' rather than 'human crime.'
Violence = Potential − Actual. The Earth could have remained in a sustainable ecological equilibrium; the Actual is a wasteland depleted by capital and industrial power. The gap between them is structural violence on a global scale. Who profits? Who are the complicit ones? The experts defining 'records' in air-conditioned rooms and the power centers driving carbon emissions are the key nodes of this complicity. They weaponize 'crisis' to seize the right of interpretation, leaving victims to await 'solutions' that are merely new iterations of capital logic.
The irony is that these 'hottest year' records are converted into data points or warnings, while the direct violence is borne exclusively by the Primal Race and marginalized groups. When the narrative is 'Godzilla,' we discuss the size of the monster, not the invoice from the slaughterhouse.