Heat Is Not a Metaphor

It’s possible to understand that glaciers are melting more than they have historically, that fires are more likely when foliage is dry, or that a political party has a vested interest in promoting further investment in fossil fuels, but it’s not possible to understand or experience ‘climate change’ as such. The idea as a whole is a hyperobject, bey... See more

Analyzing the language we use to describe climate change is particularly urgent, according to Dr. Stibbe, as our words directly influence how we tackle it. For example, the neutral-sounding term “anthropogenic climate change” collapses human responsibility for the climate crisis into a neat, innocuous noun. “There’s no actual agents doing anything,

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