The rhetorical limitations of the #FridaysForFuture movement

The rhetorical limitations of the #FridaysForFuture movement

The rhetorical limitations of the #FridaysForFuture movement, Published online: 06 May 2019; doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0481-1

The students striking for action on climate change admirably display civic engagement on a pressing issue. Nevertheless, their movement’s message focuses far too heavily on the need to ‘listen to science’, which is at most a point of departure for answering the ethical and political questions central to climate action.