Matthew Hoffman

Professor of Political Science and Co-Director Environmental Governance Lab, University of Toronto

School Strike for Climate demo

Using Language to Make the World of Fossil Fuels Strange and Ugly

As a society, we have not made the status quo strange and the negative aspects of fossil fuel dominance visible in our language and labels: dirty, gas-powered cars; polluting, coal-fired electricity; unsustainable, oil-dependent agriculture. And we need to.

July 25, 2019