“The language of the environment” is a product of all the dissenting opinions related to the environment, as they exist both regionally and globally, and how those ideas govern environmental conversation. Due to a lack of comprehensive environmental education, common perspectives on environmental issues can vary wildly, dividing individuals by how they communicate about the environment. These differences in communication can be seen as different dialects within the language of the environment, creating inherently varying forms of communication about the environment that reduce basic understanding of environmental degradation and can lead to interpretations that do not focus on remedying the climate crisis. “People speak on different terms,” environmental studies lecturer Yen-Chu Weng said. “For people who only understand money, you would have to talk to them in monetary terms when talking about environmental issues.” For example, when concentrating on environmental economics, this branch becomes fairly controversial in its promotion of ethical conservation. Environmental economics has the ability to further environmental policy if the benefits of some development project or legal proposition outweigh the hypothetical environmental cost. In this way, an environmental economist may have environmental knowledge but is only entitled to an opinion in the monetary sense. The individual might not share the same principled alarm as a park ranger or an environmental justice warrior, concerned with securing natural systems and addressing the climate crisis. Transglobal dialects of the environment differ in subject but are also highly influenced by historic and cultural evolutions, especially when considering the government’s power to grant rights to environmental features. To view the full article visit Daily UW.
