Wild Ones #1: How does language conceal environmental problems?

Why it matters what we don't say as much as what we do say in solving environmental problems.

One idea:

• Erasure: a story that we believe, adhere to or hold unconsciously in our minds “that an area of life is unimportant or unworthy of consideration.”

  (in Ecolinguistics by Arran Stibbe, Professor of Ecological Linguistics, University of Gloucestershire).

Erasure is a useful tool to explore how patterns of language are used to hide some aspects of …