Climate Change: a Narrative of the Third Kind in Europe?
Résumé
Abstract : When they are addressing climate change, policymakers take decisions and build discourses in interaction (positive or negative) with citizens. In Europe, public authorities have developed a discourse about "citizenship": The citizen must be persuaded to convert to domestic low-carbon practices: Soft transports, heating and consuming equipment... This discourse is based on a new grand climate narrative, developed by the IPCC, in which planet is the victim, and human beings are the culprits who must repair the faults committed. More recently, a climate-sceptic counter-story stood up against this discourse and the afferent policies. Our objective consists in describing the sociology of a third kind of narrative, based on the reactions of Europeans to climate change discourse: While accepting the IPCC scenario, this third narrative refuses its conclusions: Instead of making guilty citizens and inciting them to act, it rejects the blame on large institutions, companies or states.
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