Climate futures: Scientists' discourses on collapse versus transformation.

ABSTRACT: The climate and ecological crisis poses an unprecedented challenge, with scientists playing a critical role in how society understands and responds. This study examined how 27 environmentally concerned scientists from 11 countries construct the future in the context of climate change, applying a critical discursive psychology analysis. The degree to which the future is constructed as predetermined or transformable impacts both the urgency and scope of proposed actions. Along a temporal spectrum from fixed and inevitable to contingent and transformable, scientists drew upon shared discourses of social and ecological collapse. The degree of fixity or openness in scientists' talk about the future shaped the range of arguments available, demonstrating varying levels of argumentative flexibilit

SUBMITTER: Finnerty S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11646080 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature