Robot writers could become co-authors of our most complex subjects, helping to write the narratives of climate change and political upheaval just as surely as their industrial and financial colleagues are driving them.
(Research has shown that these four factors are key predictors of public support for climate policies. Not coincidentally, they also underpin most narratives of climate skepticism and denial). We found that, from as early as the 1970s, Exxon Mobil (and its predecessors Exxon and Mobil) not only knew about emerging climate science, but also contributed research to it.
While most narratives of climate futures focus on the great destabilizations, violence, and suffering we can expect in the next century, with seemingly doomed island nations (such as Tuvalu and the Maldives) serving as symbols of an incipient era of unconscionable environmental injustice, at least one island will rise.
He is currently completing his book, Climate Change from the Streets, which analyzes the narratives of climate advocates, experts and local governments.
More than 100,000 people are expected to participate in the climate march, which will be divided into contiguous sections that help convey the narrative of the climate movement.
Nine wood timbers were stacked together to make a bench that "suggests each person's role in the narrative of unfolding climate change". The bench was left white to prompt passersby to sit for a moment and consider how they can color the future by individual and collective action to limit climate change.
This process hinges on the deployment of legitimacy claims, which may appeal to cultural tradition, technical expertise, community engagement, and dominant scientific narratives on climate change.
SWOON: So much about the boats for me was always this loose narrative of thinking about climate change, and thinking about floods, and thinking about the idea of the coastal purchase of cities breaking off and then traveling and mutating and changing.
The narrative of our struggle on climate should be one of American elation, transcendence, epiphany, euphoria.
The social justice narrative of 'system change not climate change' has now gone mainstream with voices such as UNFCCC Chief Christiana Figueres now calling for 'a new system' at COP21.
