The social sciences have been faced with a series of challenges to their relevance since the beginning of the 21st century. The film is hip and engaging, using wry humor and edgy music to call viewers to The Archivist wonders: ' what state of mind were we in, to face extinction and simply shrug it off? ' The answer is, of course, that we were stupid. To tell the tale, the keeper of a global archive, the last man on earth, shows a video montage of the lives of six real people living in 2008 who are in different ways affected by, or implicated in, global climate change. ' It is a cautionary tale about the price that future generations will pay for the ignorance of current generations. The Age of Stupid offers a dystopian image of a devastated world in 2055 and a backwards look at missed opportunities for averting the ' suicide of the species. Soon after the dust of Al Gore's The Inconvenient Truth had settled, another eco-blockbuster film took British audiences by storm. What hope is there for counter-hegemonic political theories and social movements in times like these? I suggest that rather than give in and get on the crowded climate change bandwagon, an alternative response is to pursue a project of feminist ecological citizenship that blends resistance to hege-monic neoliberal discourses with a specifically feminist commitment to reclaiming democratic debate about social-environmental futures. Whereas much of the gender-focused scholarship on climate change is concerned with questions of differentiated vulnerabilities and gendered divisions of responsibility and risk, I want to interrogate the strategic, epistemological, and normative implications for ecological feminism of a dominant, neoliberal climate change narrative that arguably has no political subject, casts Nature as a threat to be endured, and that replaces democratic public debate with expert administration and individual behavior change. My aim in this essay is to consider what this analysis might mean for a feminist green politics and how those who believe in such a project might respond. European political theorists have argued that contemporary imaginaries of climate change are symptomatic of a post-political condition.

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