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Chapter 372The flames depicted in the Caudrilla photograph are coming from an object from which they are supposed to come – a cooking stove (see Figure 3.6(a)). This perhaps also narrates the necessity of having gas and the casual way in which we use flammable gas in our homes.The two very different visual storylines, of risk and of a routine activity, stand out, given that they both use the same visual element – flames. The unique use of this visual element emphasizes the distance between different ways of interpreting the policy issue. Thus, the visual storyline increases the tension between the two discourse coalitions and may contribute to polarization (see Figure 3.6(b)).(a)(b)Figure 3.6. (a) Cooking stove flame, source: Pxfuel. (b) Discourse coalitions and photographs depicting flames in the Dutch controversy.Example 3: use of maps in the Dutch controversyA last example of polarization also comes from the Dutch controversy. Two discourse coalitions that we examined in this example are the environmental risk coalition and a coalition for which we borrow the term ‘agnotological’. Similar Efrat.indd 72 19-09-2023 09:47