Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to explain the US society’s insignificant mitigation of climate change using Niklas Luhmann’s (1989) autopoietic social systems theory in ecological communication. Specifically, the author’s analysis falls within the context of Luhmann re-moralized while focusing on particular function systems’ binary codes and their repellence of substantive US climate change mitigation policy across systems.

Design/methodology/approach

The author achieves this purpose by resituating Luhmann’s conception of evolution to forgo systems teleology and better contextualize the spatial-temporal scale of climate change; reinforcing complexity reduction and differentiation by integrating communication and media scholar John D. Peters’s (1999) “communication chasm” concept as one mechanism through which codes sustain over time; and applying these integrated concepts to prominent the US climate change mitigation attempts.

Findings

The author concludes that climate change mitigation efforts are the amalgamation of the systems’ moral communications. Mitigation efforts have relegated themselves to subsystems of the ten major systems given the polarizing nature of their predominant care/harm moral binary. Communication chasms persist because these moral communications cannot both adhere to the systems’ binary codes and communicate the climate crisis’s urgency. The more time that passes, the more codes force mitigation organizations, activist efforts and their moral communications to adapt and sacrifice their actions to align with the encircling systems’ code.

Social implications

In addition to the conceptual contribution, the social implication is that by identifying how and why climate change mitigation efforts are subsumed by the larger systems and their codes, climate change activists and practitioners can better tool their tactics to change the codes at the heart of the systems if serious and substantive climate change mitigation is to prevail.

Originality/value

To the author’s knowledge, there has not been an integration of a historical communication concept into, and sociological application of, ecological communication in the context of climate change mitigation.

中文翻译：

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士气低落：将 JD Peters 的交流“鸿沟”与 Niklas Luhmann (1989) 的生态交流相结合，分析减缓气候变化的不作为

目的

本文的目的是利用 Niklas Luhmann (1989) 在生态传播中的自创生社会系统理论来解释美国社会对气候变化的微不足道的减缓。具体而言，作者的分析属于 Luhmann 重新道德化的背景，同时关注特定功能系统的二进制代码及其对跨系统的实质性美国气候变化减缓政策的排斥。

设计/方法/方法

作者通过重新使用 Luhmann 的进化概念来放弃系统目的论并更好地将气候变化的时空尺度置于语境中来实现这一目的；通过整合传播和媒体学者 John D. Peters (1999) 的“传播鸿沟”概念作为代码随时间维持的一种机制，加强复杂性降低和差异化；并将这些综合概念应用于美国减缓气候变化的尝试。

发现

作者得出结论，减缓气候变化的努力是系统道德交流的融合。鉴于主要护理/伤害道德二元体系的两极分化性质，缓解措施已将自己降级为十个主要系统的子系统。沟通鸿沟持续存在，因为这些道德沟通无法既遵守系统的二进制代码又无法传达气候危机的紧迫性。时间越长，越多的准则迫使缓解组织、激进主义努力和他们的道德交流去适应和牺牲他们的行动以与包围系统的准则保持一致。

社会影响

除了概念上的贡献外，社会意义在于，通过确定更大的系统及其准则如何以及为何包含气候变化减缓工作，气候变化活动家和从业者可以更好地运用他们的策略来改变处于气候变化核心的准则。如果要取得重大和实质性的气候变化缓解，则系统。

原创性/价值

据作者所知，在减缓气候变化的背景下，还没有将历史传播概念整合到生态传播的社会学应用中。