Far-right narratives of climate change acceptance and their role in addressing climate skepticism (Journal Article)
- Philadelphia, PA :Taylor & Francis Group ,2023
- 386-396p.
- The Journal of Environmental Education Volume 54: Numbers 4-6, 2023 .
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Abstract: As research on far-right climate change communication focuses on climate skepticisms, little is known about how the far-right justifies climate acceptance—and what this might mean for environmental education and counter-communication. To initiate a discussion of communicative strategies through which far-right actors might become more accepting of climate mitigation, we, first, reconstruct the narrative structure underlying far-right climate acceptance. Drawing on insights this reconstruction provides and assuming that such acceptance contains lessons for persuasive communication with far-right skeptics, we, second, discuss a number of axioms for counter-communication to be used in environmental education and teaching practice.
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far right| climate change communication| narrative| skepticism| counter-communication