From War to Warning: Chronopolitical Rhetoric in the Global Warming Debate
Author:
- Lisa Slawter-Volkening (University of Georgia)
In this essay I explore possible connections between the rhetoric of time in debates over war and global warming. Utilizing and expanding upon Roger Stahl's analysis of chronopolitical rhetoric in the context of post-industrial war, I argue that rhetorics of time in the global warming debate are not necessarily anti-democratic, and may function as a rhetorical resource to productively shift the global warming debate from technical scientific definitions to citizen engagement over solutions.