Tsunami and Global Warming Metaphors

Somechange metaphors in the changing world/changing world metaphor - Tsunami metaphor - Global Warming Metaphor - Here are two more. - Metaphor for sea level rise due to global warming - Due to global warming Desertification Metaphor.

Tsunami metaphor - Changes that come speedily

• Change is visible.
• It is suggested that if you ran away when you saw them, you might not make it in time.
  • Consequences of change being “fast change” with “visible change” and “easy to understand change”.
  • It is suggested that if you get involved, you will die.
• I’ll get away first.
  • The direction of escape is easy to see.
    • We’re going to get to higher ground.

Metaphor for sea level rise - Change Comes Slowly (↔ Tsunami metaphor) - Gradually, “the place you used to live” turns into “a place unfit to live”.

• Change is visible.
  • Land turns into sea
• We can run away.
  • This change will not kill you instantly.
• Competition is on the run.
  • Not always enough resources
    • Basically, you don’t have enough.
    • The only reason why that move has been available so far is because it’s more inconvenient than the place it used to be.
    • We can’t supply the same quality as before in the same quantity.
  • Whoever moves first gets the better part.
  • Those who arrive late will be competing for the remaining low quality resources.

Desertification Metaphor

• Change Comes Slowly
  • Gradually, “the place you used to live” turns into “a place unfit to live”.
• Change is hard to see (↔ sea level rise metaphor)
  • It comes in a way that is difficult to understand: the efficiency of agricultural production is slowly decreasing and the frequency of problems is increasing.
  • There are those who can look at those individual events and notice the changes behind them, and there are those who concentrate on dealing with the individual events.
    • Individual concrete events and abstracted changes

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