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Experiencing Tomorrow: The Importance of Immersive Arts for Climate Science Communication
Gebhardt Fearns explores the potential of the immersive arts for communicating climate change.
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"The Influence of Institutional Culture on the Formation of Pre-Regime Climate Change Policies in Sweden, Japan and the United States"
Anne K. Johnson tests the claims of cultural theory using the formation of climate change policies in Sweden, the United States, and Japan as case studies.
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An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth is a passionate and inspirational look at former Vice President Al Gore’s fervent crusade to halt global warming’s deadly progress by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it.
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Historicizing Risk
In “Historicizing Risk,” historian Lawrence Culver explores Ulrich Beck’s theories on the nature of risk on a temporal scale, and asks how awareness and perceptions of risk changed from the “first” modernity to now, and how that relates to the global issue of climate change.
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"Laudato si' and the Postsecularism of the Environmental Humanities"
Handley’s article for the Special Commentary section explores Pope Francis’s Laudato si’, questioning the postsecularity of the environmental humanities and the continued dismissal of spiritual and religious discourse in the context of establishing an environmental ethos.
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Rescuing Climate Data as a Scientific and Communication Bridge
Ashcroft explores how citizen science can connect professional scientists and the public.
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Politics of Anthropocene Consumption: Dipesh Chakrabarty and Three College Courses
In this essay, Watt recounts discussions with her students regarding lifestyle patterns; she shows how it will be necessary to change such patterns if we are to take climate change seriously from an economic and policy perspective, and to tackle it realistically.
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Whose Anthropocene? A Response
Chakrabarty responds to the contributors of this volume by addressing five issues he considers fundamental to discussions on climate change.
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“Beyond Nonpartisan Discourses: Radical Knowledge for Extreme Times.”
This article discusses the limits of warnings issued by scientists and what is needed for actual change.
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Nordic Climate Histories: Impacts, Pathways, Narratives
Full volume of Nordic Climate Histories: Impacts, Pathways, Narratives, edited by Dominik Collet, Ingar Mørkestøl Gundersen, Heli Huhtamaa, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Astrid E.J. Ogilvie, and Sam White.