How Did Trudeau Use War Metaphors?

I see the war metaphor (Hoggan, 2005), being used in statements like "to flight climate change" (Trudeau, 2017, para 3) using this metaphor implies a winner and a loser and can put the communicator in a defensive position, which we have learned from Lakoff (2010) can reinforces the reductionist metaphors. Additionally, I find using words like "growth" is ironic as that contributes to the mindset the nature is infinite and available for human consumption.
On a positive note Trudeau did try to connect ecosystem health to human well being and discuss collaborating with global partners, I believe this is a move towards eco-centric concepts but has not made the leap to nature evolving (Holling, 2002). I think there was an opportunity to model