Fossil fuels and toxic masculinity

In writing about cars yesterday, I was reminded of an incident a couple of weeks ago. A certain man I’m not going to name tweeted Greta Thunberg to ask for her email address, so he could send her details of his car collection and each car’s emissions. Thunberg’s withering reply is now legendary, and a matter of days later said cars were impounded by the police anyway.

I don’t really want to give this story any oxygen, but it is perhaps the defining moment of what is sometimes called petro-ma...