climate change is the beast

An example of metaphors in science journalism"

"But by the 1970s, nuclear power was a pariah…

Climate change had been there all along: skies had been warming, glaciers melting and seas slowly rising for decades. Until the 1980s, few humans had regarded the beast as a serious threat. No longer. But the only force that was truly able to combat it – according to the movie – was largely regarded as a pariah, beset by a cultural hysteresis that associated it with bombs and meltdowns."

Robert P Crease

Crease, R. P. (2023) Nuclear Now by Oliver Stone – putting nuclear energy back on the table (film review), Physics World