ABSTRACT
Climate change presents a range of crises. Major events like hurricanes, wildfires, and sea level rise are often used to illustrate a future in peril. This chapter argues that climate change needs to be understood as a problem that is also historical and requires a new approach where climate change is framed and understood as an aspect of a larger context (colonialism, industrialism, capitalism) that produced, and in many cases, actively supports the ongoing trajectory of climate change towards ever more cataclysmic disaster-filled futures. This chapter suggests that how journalists cover climate change must not only focus on a future with probable crises, but also a more past-informed present in which societal systems and structures have both created and amplified a lack of resilience in the face of what diverse Indigenous frameworks demonstrate are always fluctuating relations with and situatedness in ecological systems.
