ANTH 266 Chapter 2: How Long-Standing Debates Have Shaped Recent Climate Change Discourses

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Trends in arctic and low-lying islands seem to be more associated with climate change than trends in mountains and deserts. The long history of the discussions shape the particular treatment of different places in climate change discourse. Subordinate peoples have taken part in the construction of climate change discourse. Environmentalism and sustainability inspire action around the world, but result in erasing earlier or more local frameworks. Historical origins and development of climate change discourses. Economic motives to extract resources and control strategic areas and cultural impulses to construct scientific and artistic representations. Interest in new trade routes (northwest and northeast passages) Scientific exploration (data on weather, ice, ocean conditions) Cultural fascination (especially with romantic painters and writers) Cultural interest in chiefdoms and kingdoms and traditions of inter island travel and exchange. Atoll: a ring-shaped reef, island, or chain of islands formed of coral. International society for reef studies founded in 1980.

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