Climate Change is happening now. Whether or not you are convinced by the science that tells us the earth’s climate is warming, it is indisputable that policies, laws, and programs (on the national and international level) are creating a culture of climate change.
Culture of Climate Change, written by Alice Bullard, provides links to all types of material on climate change including:
- Popular responses to climate change (films, videos, fictions, eye witness narratives)
- Policies, Laws and Programs designed to help people mitigate or adapt to climate change (with an emphasis on the United Nations’ activities)
- Emerging Technologies
We provide some links to climate science, but the focus of this site is on what has happened and what is happening globally in response to climate change science. That is, we focus on what people are doing because of, or in response to, climate change– whether that is inventing a new type of car, making a film, converting agro-waste into methane gas, hammering out international funding agreements and program guidelines, or posting videos of a flood or drought to YouTube.
Pushed onto the political agenda by scientists and made a global action item by the United Nations, climate change began to act as a crystallizing concept some twenty years ago. The rise of new media (email, the world wide web, YOU-Tube, and social networking) facilitates the global dimensions of this culture of climate change. We aspire to focus, distill, and reflect back to the public the emerging shape of climate change culture.
We provide summaries and analyses of complicated policies in order to broaden the understanding of how climate change is working within national and especially international programs. We explore how news stories, eye witness accounts, and film and fiction relate to these policies. We reflect on how to understand these responses to climate change, and take stock of the reflections of others.
We intend this site to be useful and inclusive. We provide links to programs for those of you who want to start some kind of project. If you have an interest, issue, or concern that you would like included send us a message or comment. We will do our best to include it.
Climate change is happening now. Explore it on this website and through the links we provide. Understand how policies and programs relate to everyday experiences. Act on your knowledge and participate in this emerging culture of climate change.