Los discursos en torno al clima y al medioambiente

Los grandes consensos progresistas y su cuestionamiento desde la extrema derecha argentina

Abstract

Among the discourses on climate and environment, which have proliferated in recent years, two texts stabilise the previously produced ones: the United Nations 2030 Agenda and Pope Francis’ encyclical ‘Laudato si’, published in 2015. Although they share many features of ‘progressivism’, they differ in terms of their institutional framework, the authority place they construct, their generic features and the way they articulate the ecological agenda with other aspects of social life, which the Sustainable Development formula enables. We refer to these topics in the first part of this article. Moreover, as discursive events, those two documents are open to revisiting and questioning from different perspectives, such as the ones maintained by climate change negationists and advocates of uncontrolled extractivism. Hence the interest in contrasting them with the position of the Argentinian president, Javier Milei. In this sense, in the second part of the paper, we analyse some argumentative strategies: disqualification of the opposing position, legitimisation and attenuation of responsibilities, naturalisation of the juxtaposition/ association of heterogeneous aspects and reformulative paraphrasing. We conclude referring to the modes of regulation and control of discursivity practised by the ‘libertarian’ right in relation to environmental issues.