This is a strategy of changing the conversation: Building an alternative crisis narrative on top of the Russian attack, blaming domestic governments for #inflation & #costoflivingcrisis. It's an important part of the far right's success: turning anger about prices into a story of collective betrayal

AfD and FPÖ portrayed themselves as the ones who "protect" national, sacred values: "industrial strength" in Germany, "neutrality" in Austria. Paradoxically, this allowed them to depict continued dependence on Russian gas as a kind of national sovereignty

Since we're doing a comparative interview project in which we ask citizens in Austria, Slovakia, Norway, Spain what they think about climate compensation (among other things), it will be exciting to look more into how these differences are perceived on the ground @cidape.bsky.social

🤝 Vielen Dank - ich freue mich auf die Lektüre des Klimawende Ausblicks!

This is a powerful language game: Promoting counter-narratives to climate activism by mirroring a catastrophe framing, shifting the focus from environmental crisis to an imagined economic collapse

It's based on an analysis of a large corpus of tweets by the German AfD and the Austrian FPÖ. They love to flip climate language on its head: instead of species extinction, for example, they warn of a "Kraftwerkesterben",  a "dying off" of power plants #climatedelay