Stephanie Rutherford
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816674404
- eISBN:
- 9781452946740
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816674404.003.0004
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Nature
This chapter focuses on the construction of climate change discourse by examining the personage and work of Al Gore. An Inconvenient Truth relies on the impartiality and unquestioned truth of science ...
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This chapter focuses on the construction of climate change discourse by examining the personage and work of Al Gore. An Inconvenient Truth relies on the impartiality and unquestioned truth of science to warn of impending global apocalypse, reinscribing the pre-eminence of this way of understanding nonhuman nature. An Inconvenient Truth and the persona of Al Gore offer an ethics of the self, an individualized form of green governmentality. Gore acts as a preeminent truth-teller, and his interweaving of science and storytelling is a potent way to narrate environmental crisis, reshaping the categories to meet the needs of the modern world.Less
This chapter focuses on the construction of climate change discourse by examining the personage and work of Al Gore. An Inconvenient Truth relies on the impartiality and unquestioned truth of science to warn of impending global apocalypse, reinscribing the pre-eminence of this way of understanding nonhuman nature. An Inconvenient Truth and the persona of Al Gore offer an ethics of the self, an individualized form of green governmentality. Gore acts as a preeminent truth-teller, and his interweaving of science and storytelling is a potent way to narrate environmental crisis, reshaping the categories to meet the needs of the modern world.
