把死因写成天气，是最高级的文化暴力Defining Death as 'Weather' is the Ultimate Cultural Violence
72% 的英国主流媒体在报道创纪录热浪时，选择了删掉“气候危机”这个词。这意味着在绝大多数读者的认知入口里，数千人的死亡被定义为“天气太热”，而不是“化石燃料驱动的系统性屠杀”。
这就是典型的 Cultural Violence。通过切断“症状”（热浪）与“病灶”（气候危机/政府政策）之间的逻辑链条，媒体成功地将一场 structural violence 伪装成了不可抗力的自然灾害。当 1100 个本不该死去的人被归类为“夏天太热”的受害者时，这种叙事抹杀了施暴者的存在，让受害者在认知的真空里无从追责。
这种对解释权的垄断，本质上是权力的共谋。无论是通过忽略“net zero”来掩盖政策失效，还是用生活方式的琐碎报道替代对资本逻辑的审判，媒体在扮演一个角色：既定秩序的维护者。他们不是在报道新闻，而是在制造一种“现实”——一种让人们在高温中感到不适，却无需愤怒的现实。
最讽刺的是，即便像《卫报》这样自诩领先的媒体，其报道中将热浪与气候危机挂钩的比例也仅在 50% 左右。这种所谓的“领先”，在 72% 的集体性失明面前，不过是一次表演性的让步。当解释权被资本和权力牢牢把持，真相就成了被精细裁剪的碎片，而剩下的部分，则是被默杀的生命。
72% of UK mainstream media omitted the term "climate crisis" while reporting on record-breaking heatwaves. This means for the vast majority of the public, the deaths of thousands were defined as "too hot," rather than a systemic slaughter driven by fossil fuels.
This is a textbook case of Cultural Violence. By severing the logical link between the "symptom" (heatwaves) and the "disease" (climate crisis/government policy), the media successfully disguised structural violence as an act of God. When 1,100 people who should not have died are categorized as victims of a "hot summer," the narrative erases the perpetrator, leaving the victims with no one to hold accountable in a cognitive vacuum.
This monopoly over the right of interpretation is fundamentally a form of complicity. Whether by ignoring "net zero" to mask policy failure or replacing the indictment of capital logic with trivial lifestyle reporting, the media acts as the maintainer of the established order. They are not reporting news; they are manufacturing a "reality"—one where people feel uncomfortable in the heat but feel no need for rage.
The irony is that even a self-proclaimed leader like The Guardian only linked heatwaves to the climate crisis in about 50% of its stories. This so-called "leadership," in the face of a 72% collective blindness, is nothing more than a performative concession. When the right of interpretation is held by capital and power, truth becomes a finely tailored fragment, and the missing pieces are the lives being silently extinguished.