Enviromental NGOS in Spain
Discourse, ideological denialism and the climate crisis
Keywords:
discourse, denialism, climate change, NGOAbstract
This study analyzes the discourses of four environmental NGOs based in Spain —Greenpeace, WWF, Amigos de la Tierra and Ecologistas en Acción—, from 2004 to 2018, regarding the ideological denial of climate change (the denial of the anthropocentric ideology underlying the climate crisis, not just its anthropogenic causes). Through the analysis of frames and a Critical Discourse Analysis of 1,323 documents, the present research offers a perspective on the role of these NGOs in relation to climate inaction and analyzes the extent to which they have contributed to disseminating consistent solutions aligned with the problems detected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change —IPCC—.Such problems consist in meat-based diets , human overpopulation, economic growth, and the notion of technology as solution. The results show that those NGOs have implicitly perpetuated ideological denial and contributed to inaction.
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