The Image of Climate Crisis in Media: A Conceptual Metaphor Analysis

The climate crisis is now become the world problem and a big environmental issue and has drawn attention of governments and media, the impact of the crisis can be reflected on how media describe the crisis using metaphors. The way media use the language metaphorically to describe the climate crisis is the focus of this study. Using conceptual metaphor analysis, researchers aim to identify the source domains of climate crisis metaphor which deliver the sense of urgency message related to climate crisis. The source of data is from ten news article from Guardian website which discuss the climate crisis. The result shows that various source domains are used to describe the climate crisis in metaphor: Climate Crisis is described as a War, as an Object in Motion, Directionality, a Vehicle, a Destination, a Political Ideology, a Wrestler, a Chemical Substance, and as a Natural Disaster. Although climate crisis is one of them described metaphorically as a destination where sooner or later without a drastic action, eventually the world will arrive there, but it implied an unwanted destination that should be avoided or else, turning back or stop towards the destination, and with the highest finding where climate crisis described as a war to fight and to combat, it shows that the climate crisis is a real threat to our world which everyone should take action to fight. This study shows that although the unintended entailments occurred, the source domain of war and destination deliver the sense of urgency of the climate crisis

Addressing the Climate Crisis

This open access book brings together a collection of cutting-edge insights into how action can and is already being taken against climate change at multiple levels of our societies, amidst growing calls for transformative and inclusive climate action. In an era of increasing recognition regarding climate and ecological breakdown, this book offers hope, inspiration and analyses for multi-level climate action, spanning varied communities, places, spaces, agents and disciplines, demonstrating how the energy and dynamism of local scales are a powerful resource in turning the tide. Interconnected yet conceptually distinct, the book’s three sections span multiple levels of analysis, interrogating diverse perspectives and practices inherent to the vivid tapestry of climate action emerging locally, nationally and internationally. Delivered in collaboration with the UK’s ‘Place-Based Climate Action Network’, chapters are drawn from a wide range of authors with varying backgrounds spread across academia, policy and practice

Response to the Global Climate Crisis in The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Results of anthropogenic environmental changes have become even more visible in the recent years with the ongoing climate crisis calling for sustainable alternatives to our current ways of living globally. Fiction has been in engagement with the issues of global climate crisis, however, the scales of it pose representational challenges on climate narratives and, additionally, most current literary narrativizations of the crisis embrace dystopian modes of representation. This thesis investigates the narrative strategies in The Ministry for the Future (2020) and how they allow Kim Stanley Robinson to mediate the complexity of the global climate crisis and its possible solutions in his anti-anti-Utopian vision. I argue that the narrative strategies that Robinson deploys, render the complexity of the climate crisis more accessible to the readers and do so in the following ways: firstly, I propose that to respond to the representational challenges associated with the scales of the global climate crisis and the interconnected environmental and socioeconomic issues it entails, he adapts the form of The Ministry for the Future; secondly, I suggest that relying on re-imagining human agency in the narrative, allows him to challenge and propose alternatives to the status-quo of neoliberal capitalism, which is portrayed as the main antagonist in the face of the climate crisis. Ultimately, these narrative strategies enable Kim Stanley Robinson to both challenge the neoliberal capitalist ideology which halts a transition to sustainable ways of living, and, as part of the utopian impulse, to fictionalize scientifically informed paths of mitigating the global climate crisis

Census 2020: Making Western New York Count

Although climate change requires an international response and will require national policies and actions, local geographies have to be involved because it that is where the harms are felt. But how can local and regional areas respond to the climate crisis? This article offers a story of the emergence of a climate justice movement in Buffalo and Western New York as an example of how one community is addressing climate change and its unequal impacts

The Climate Justice Movement in Western New York

Although climate change requires an international response and will require national policies and actions, local geographies have to be involved because it that is where the harms are felt. But how can local and regional areas respond to the climate crisis? This article offers a story of the emergence of a climate justice movement in Buffalo and Western New York as an example of how one community is addressing climate change and its unequal impacts

The Case for Critical Media Literacy: A Comparison of Climate Discourses in Canadian Mainstream and Alternative Media

CO2 emissions have been rising and the Earth’s atmosphere is warming to perilous temperatures, making it urgent to address the climate crisis. The climate crisis has been exacerbated by neoliberalism, which is sometimes referred to as the corporate agenda. This research examines the discourses related to the climate crisis in one mainstream media outlet and two alternative media outlets. The main research question for the study was: What are the main discourses about the climate crisis and the Green New Deal in Canadian mainstream text-based media compared to alternative text-based media from September 1, 2019, to December 31, 2020? Mainstream media is media that is funded by corporations and is mass produced and distributed. Another type of media is alternative media, which is structurally different from mainstream media and is less influenced by corporate sponsorship. This research questioned how these media outlets the National Post, The Tyee, and Rabble report on the climate crisis. It studied whether they are hegemonic devices that promote the neoliberal agenda, particularly pertaining to the fossil fuel industries? How the Green New Deal is presented to the masses in the media is also analyzed. The study analyzed the discourses used by the three media outlets in various categories pertaining to this existential problem, namely, the climate crisis. It used critical discourse analysis to analyze and interpret the media coverage about the climate crisis and the Green New Deal in Canadian mainstream and alternative media. The National Post mostly used neoliberal discourses in its articles about the climate crisis, often supporting corporate interests over environmental concerns, including those posed by Indigenous protestors attempting to protect the land. By comparison, The Tyee and Rabble used counterhegemonic discourses in virtually all the categories in every article in the data. The study demonstrates the need for critical media literacy in classrooms to help understand the seriousness of the climate crisis. Critical media literacy interrogates how power is connected to language and helps students develop critical thinking skills. These skills can help students identify and interpret hegemonic discourses that may hinder climate action. This type of literacy can help students become informed citizens, which in turn could help them demand climate action. This research demonstrates where power and ideology are in media discourses and how hegemonic discourses are a barrier to climate action. Critical media literacy is necessary as a counter-hegemonic strategy, especially in high school classrooms. This research is rooted in social and ecological justice