Biochar in the British print news media: an analysis of promissory discourse and the creation of expectations about carbon removal
Biochar in the British print news media: an analysis of promissory discourse and the creation of expectations about carbon removal
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英国印刷新闻媒体中的生物炭：对承诺话语的分析和对碳清除的期望的产生
DOI：
10.1080/09505431.2023.2285057
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Nerlich B
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文献类型：
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作者：
Nerlich B
生物炭是通过去除大气中的二氧化碳来应对气候危机而开发的越来越多的方法之一。然而公众对生物炭的认知度较低。在这种情况下，大众媒体报道在公开问题以及创造对其风险和收益的预期方面发挥着重要作用。在英国的大报上，出现了一种关于生物炭的承诺性、面向未来的话语，这种话语通过诸如评价性形容词、动词、夸张以及对赋予神秘感的文学和文化符号的暗示等进行修辞配置。生物炭被认为是一种近乎神奇的解决方案，因为它具有吸收和储存碳、改善土壤健康、提高农作物产量和减少污染物的能力。相反，生物炭的一些可能的负面影响以讽刺和模仿的形式表达出来，而另一些则被隐藏起来。这将生物炭设定为公众应该接受的道德善，而不是就其风险和收益展开公开辩论。对生物炭承诺的构建方式进行细粒度的修辞分析，扩展了期望社会学的方法论和实证库，并且在未来可以应用于其他新兴气候变化技术的分析，特别是与碳去除相关的技术。
Biochar is amongst a growing suite of approaches developed to address the climate crisis by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; yet public awareness of biochar is low. In this situation, mass-media reporting plays an important role in making an issue public and in creating expectations about its risks and benefits. In British broadsheet newspapers, a promissory, future-oriented discourse on biochar has emerged that is rhetorically configured through, for example, evaluative adjectives, verbs, hyperbole, and allusions to literary and cultural symbols that confer a sense of mystique. Biochar is promoted as an almost magical fix, based on its ability to soak up and store carbon, improve soil health, increase crops yields, and reduce pollutants. Conversely, some of the possible negative aspects of biochar are couched in the form of sarcasm and parody, while others are made invisible. This sets biochar up as a moral good that the public ought to accept, rather than opening up a public debate about its risks and benefits. Engaging in a fine-grained rhetorical analysis of the way promises about biochar are constructed expands the methodological and empirical repertoire of the sociology of expectations and, in future, can be applied to the analysis of other emerging climate change technologies, especially those relating to carbon removal.
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