Despite mounting urgency to mitigate climate change, new coal mines have recently been approved in various countries, including in Southeast Asia and Australia. Adani’s Carmichael coal mine project in the Galilee Basin, Queensland (Australia), was approved in June 2019 after 9 years of political contestation. Counteracting global efforts to decarbonise energy systems, this mine will substantially increase Australia’s per capita CO2 emissions, which are already among the highest in the world. Australia’s deepening carbon lock-in can be attributed to the essential economic role played by the coal industry, which gives it structural power to dominate political dynamics. Furthermore, tenacious networks among the traditional mass media, mining companies, and their shareholders have reinforced the politico-economic influence of the industry, allowing the mass media to provide a venue for the industry’s outside lobbying strategies as well as ample backing for its discursive legitimisation with pro-coal narratives. To investigate the enduring symbiosis between the coal industry, business interests, the Australian state, and mainstream media, we draw on natural language processing techniques and systematically study discourses about the coal mine in traditional and social media between 2017 and 2020. Our results indicate that while the mine’s approval was aided by the pro-coal narratives of Queensland’s main daily newspaper, the Courier-Mail, collective public sentiment on Twitter has diverged significantly from the newspaper’s stance. The rationale for the mine’s approval, notwithstanding increasing public contestation, lies in the enduring symbiosis between the traditional economic actors and the state; and yet, our results highlight a potential corner of the discursive battlefield favourable for hosting more diverse arguments.

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Diversos estudos mostram que, em vários países, incluindo o Brasil, o período em que os jovens permanecem na casa dos pais aumentou constantemente entre 1970 e 2000. O presente trabalho analisa a decisão dos jovens de sair da casa dos pais, sair da escola e entrar no mercado de trabalho, com o objetivo de identificar se o bom desempenho da economia brasileira entre 2003 e 2011 promoveu a aceleração dessas transições para a vida adulta. Utilizando os microdados da PNAD, calculou-se a proporção de jovens de 15 a 34 anos de áreas metropolitanas que moram com os pais, que estudam e que trabalham. Em seguida, utiliza-se a análise de entropia com o objetivo de investigar essas três dimensões conjuntamente. Os resultados sugerem uma quebra com o paradigma do prolongamento da juventude amplamente discutido nas últimas décadas: houve uma aceleração da transição para a vida adulta no período analisado.DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.20947/S0102-309820160003

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