ABSTRACT
Climate change is not only a fact that is hard to neglect. It is shaping global realities and has become one of the most decisive determinants of the global condition by impacting environmental stability, food security, social inequality, and so on. The approach to climate, notwithstanding its global effectiveness, is necessarily marked by a difference that is following signatures of perception, communication, and discourse-related production of meaning. A fundamental paradox of climate change becomes visible: although debated as coherent, homogeneous even, climate change in fact emerges on a global scale as a phenomenon characterised by highly variated patterns of sociation. Climate change is today perceived as one of the paradigmatic concerns facing globalisation. The most drastic effects of climate change can be observed in those regions of the world that are considered as the periphery of modernity.
