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Jason W. Moore || Climate emergency phraseology appeals to a longstanding, and quintessentially modern, cosmology. This is the Environmental Imaginary. Born in the bloodbath that was the rise of capitalism, it projects capitalism’s death drive onto a novel cosmology: the quasi-eternal conflict between Man and Nature. It’s with us still. We hear it whenever we encounter the language of anthropogenic climate change – as if the climate crisis resulted from humans behaving badly. In the self-interested scheme of Man and Nature, only Enlightened Civilizers can bring harmony and salvation. Whether through Christ, la mission civilisatrice, Development, or the Market, the Civilizers’ responsibility is always the same: civilize the savage, rationalize the irrational, develop the undeveloped… all so that catastrophe might be averted.