ABSTRACT
Digging deeper can first be understood in a temporal sense, as an attempt to trace the historical predecessors and conceptual roots of climate change and security discourse. For the present analysis, it is important to note that the climate change and security discourse grew genealogically out of the broader environmental security discourse. While the conceptual traces that have been outlined so far apply to the climate security discourse in general, independent from its spatial manifestations, there is a particular genealogical source for the climate security discourse on the Mediterranean: the securitization of desertification, and soil and land degradation (DSLD). The war metaphor of climate discourse comprises several sub-concepts such as climate change as an enemy, a weapon, a criminal, a threat or a catastrophe. A trope closely related to the war metaphors in the climate security discourse is the personification of climate change.
