Master Narratives &
Global Climate Change
Charlie VarsDave BellaCourt Smith
January 22, 2013
Getting Past “Not Yet”
A master narrative is coherent system of interrelated and sequentially organized stories that frame a common rhetorical script to establish audience expectations in support of a positive or negative perspective.
Competing Climate Narratives
Economic Ecological
SCIENCE WILL INFORMPOLICY
Science Frame for Policy Making
A frame consists of the mental representations, interpretations, and simplifications of reality used to communicate positive or negative perspectives to a target audience.
A master narrative is coherent system of interrelated and sequentially organized stories that frame a common rhetorical script to establish audience expectations in support of a positive or negative perspective.
Framing Master Narratives
A frame consists of the mental representations, interpretations, and simplifications of reality used to communicate positive or negative perspectives to a target audience.
Framing
A master narrative is coherent system of interrelated and sequentially organized stories that frame a common rhetorical script to establish audience expectations in support of a positive or negative perspective.
Master narratives are
Good narratives are
Simple Concrete Explanatory Realistic
Compelling narratives foster the illusion of reality.
(Kahneman 2011:199-200)
…limitation of our mind:
our exclusive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extend of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in …
(Kahneman 2011:13-14)
our exclusive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extend of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in …
…limitation of our mind:
(Kahneman 2011:13-14)
The frame for thinking about climate change has action stuck at “yes, but NOT YET, more research is needed”
The basic frame