Given how much young people have achieved in the fight against climate crisis it’s crucial their voices are really heard at COP27.
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Jessie Cole’s memoir traces a love affair: a long-distance relationship with an unnamed, older lover. It’s set against layers of thinking about love, desire, bodies and ecological disaster.
People who live with dementia and those who care for them are at increased risk of social isolation and loneliness. That can make floods and other emergencies especially distressing and dangerous.
The water shortage on the old continent, the most intense in recent centuries, is due to the expansion of the Azores anticyclone. Its effects are becoming increasingly apparent.
Words matter. It’s vital terms like ‘crisis’ and ‘calamity’ don’t become rhetorical devices devoid of real content as we argue about what climate action to take.
Universities must be considered as not only in crisis but also as drivers of crisis in a world of climate change, biodiversity loss, authoritarianism and deep social and economic inequalities.
Carbon capture technologies have been labelled as a distraction. But as we enter the all-hands-on-deck phase of tackling climate change, they must not be ignored.
Storytelling can be a powerful tool to communicate complicated crises like climate change. Telling relatable and local stories can help motivate people to action.
We need specific action now to make net zero emissions by 2050 possible.
The two leaders ignored the most pressing global issue to concentrate on the status quo issues of security and arms control.
Planting trees can sometimes be a carbon-offset box-ticking exercise, but reforestation is a long-term commitment that supports communities, promotes biodiversity and tackles the climate emergency.
The line between what is normal and what is pathological has blurred. We risk our collective sanity and our planet if we stick to business as usual.
Hearing about climate change prompts people to buy more stuff, which increases their environmental footprint. Rituals that inspire gratitude for nature can help reduce the desire to over-consume.
Symbolic gesture or assertion of state power? Declaring a climate ‘emergency’ walks a fine line between hopeful rhetoric and risk to democracy.
As a zoonotic virus, COVID-19 is itself a symptom of human-influenced climate change. It is also indicative of the humanitarian impact of future environmental crises.
Journalists are better at covering the climate crisis but there’s still room for improvement.
The response to coronavirus shows us that people can still work together to do the right thing.
New research shows changing your lifestyle for environmental reasons can lead you into political action.
The UN’s climate change conference is coming to the UK this year, and former industrial powerhouse Glasgow is just the city to demonstrate its environmental commitment.
What is the climate emergency, and whose climate crisis is it anyway?
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences and Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology
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Professorial Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
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Professor, Environment and Development Sociology, The University of Queensland
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Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, Honorary Adjunct Research Fellow, Western Sydney University
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Director, Climate Change Communication Research Hub, Monash University
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Associate Professor of English, the University of Otago, New Zealand, University of Otago
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Professor of Organisms and Environment, Cardiff University
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Research Fellow in Fuel Poverty and Energy Policy, Built Environment Asset Management (BEAM) Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Senior Lecturer in Media Psychology, University of Salford
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Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, James Cook University
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research at the University of Technology Sydney and Chief Investigator of ARC Centre for Excellence in Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Society & Environment, University of Technology Sydney
