However, in the United States environmentalists often win in the courts of media and public opinion, especially in an election year, especially with hundred - million - dollar anti-oil campaigns, laden
with emotional rhetoric.
There exist a multitude of ways in which state actors could conceivably use more restrained forms of
emotional rhetoric and behaviour to convey, for example, the tone of their relations
with other states, ranging from strong friendship, to indifference, to even contempt.