ABSTRACT
The concluding chapter summarizes the previous chapters and my arguments for both recognizing the multifaceted relationship between the Christian identity and environmental beliefs and the utility of using tailored strategies for different types of religious responses to the climate change controversy. This chapter also returns to my theoretical contributions to environmental communication and my pairing of qualitative interviews with rhetorical analysis. I summarize my argument about how discourse, when viewed as a dynamic, productive performance of identity, sheds new light on the nature of climate skepticism and how rhetorical theory and rhetorical listening can be integrated into environmental argument studies for a holistic view of public controversy that proposes practical solutions.
