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How Fear Dominates in Climate Change Debates
Historian Matthias Dorries has revealed the role of fear in our understanding of climate change.
He examined the cultural significance of fear and how it became a central presence in current debates over climate change.
Climatic change often prompts headlines predicting disastrous events, frequently adopting fear-laden language including analogies with war and warnings of the imminence or irreversibility of pending catastrophes.
Dorries from the University of Strasbourg said that a culture of fear is alive, and doing very well.
Dorries looked at the issue of fear from a historical perspective, asking how our current society has come to conceive of climate change in terms of catastrophe and fear.
"Recently historians have underlined the necessity to revise the grand Enlightenment narrative of science as antidote to fear.
"We should now look at how popular and scientific discourses frame fear, and study the constructive and destructive functions of these fear discourses in societies," said Dorries.
The 1960s and 1970s were characterized by an increasing appropriation of the future by science, leading to a rise of fear discourses by scientists themselves.
"For the very long run, science has indeed some terrifying prospects to offer for the planet Earth, and on a scale of decades, science has identified serious threats, such as anthropogenic climate change," he said.
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