Abstract
As research on far-right climate change communication focuses on climate skepticisms, little is known about how the far-right justifies climate acceptance—and what this might mean for environmental education and counter-communication. To initiate a discussion of communicative strategies through which far-right actors might become more accepting of climate mitigation, we, first, reconstruct the narrative structure underlying far-right climate acceptance. Drawing on insights this reconstruction provides and assuming that such acceptance contains lessons for persuasive communication with far-right skeptics, we, second, discuss a number of axioms for counter-communication to be used in environmental education and teaching practice.
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Notes
1 In this piece, we operationalize “far right” as the political ideology comprising, at its core, ethnonationalism (ethnicity is the key criteria of belonging to the nation) and authoritarianism (strong, order-like state and centralized leadership epitomized in a strongman).
2 In line with contemporary conventions, we use narrative and story interchangeable (Riessman, Citation2008, p. 7).