Abstract
Fossil fuel divestment activists re-imagine how the war metaphor can be used in climate change action to transform thinking around what will lead to a sustainable society. Through the naming of a clear enemy and an end goal, the overused war metaphor is renewed. By casting the fossil fuel industry in the role of enemy, fossil fuel divestment activists move to a re-imagining of the climate change problem as one that is located in the here and now with known villains who must be challenged and defeated. In this scenario, climate activists move away from the climate and national security framing to a climate and human security way of thinking.
Highlights
Fossil fuel divestment activists re-imagine how the war metaphor can be used in climate change action to transform thinking around what will lead to a sustainable society
We look at the use of the war metaphor by the policymakers and the military, and we turn to the fossil fuel divestment (FFD) movement
The war metaphor is the mechanism by which McKibben and other FFD activists spark the thought of fighting, not climate change, but those corporations that contribute most heavily to climate change through their political actions and/or economic activities
Summary
Fossil fuel divestment activists re-imagine how the war metaphor can be used in climate change action to transform thinking around what will lead to a sustainable society. Keyword: Climate change; Metaphor; Fossil fuel divestment movement We look at the use of the war metaphor by the policymakers and the military, and we turn to the fossil fuel divestment (FFD) movement.
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