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The focus of this chapter is on proximization strategies in today’s environmental discourse, especially the discourse of climate change. It is claimed that threat construction in climate change discourse possesses a strategic character, constituting a prerequisite for legitimization of environmental policies. The strategies of proximization involve external physical threats, such as adverse weather phenomena, as well as internal threats, such as inaction, lack of environmental awareness and bad management. The chapter includes analyses of speeches by NATO leaders and the former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Cap, P. (2017). Environmental Discourse: Climate Change. In: The Language of Fear. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59731-1_4
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