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Climate Change, Education, and Technology
The climate change crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever confronted.As human activities are the most significant cause for this crisis, the solution must come from within humanity.While global movements—NGOs, universities, municipal governments, etc.—are doing their part to combat the crisis, the role of education and technology cannot be emphasized enough.Education is necessary to enhance awareness, especially among the youth, generate solutions, and implement them.Technology contributes to this process by creating climate change-fighting solutions, accumulating and analysing data, and providing energy efficiency.Technology also enables the monitoring of the climate, the mitigation of its effects, and the enhancement of the environment.Therefore, climate change, education, and the use of technology should be addressed as a unit.In this volume, the authors integrate climate change, education, and technological applications. This book is comprehensive and offers readers a variety of perspectives, encouraging the generation of novel and inventive ideas.The collaboration of authors from various disciplines to address the issue brings about novel and intriguing perspectives.
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Backstage Climate : The Science and Politics Behind Climate Change
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Posthuman research playspaces : Climate child imaginaries
Posthuman research playspaces: Climate child imaginaries addresses the need for new forms of climate change education that are responsive to the rapidly changing material conditions of children’s socioecological worlds. The book provides a comprehensive understanding of how posthumanist concepts and methods can be creatively developed and deployed in collaboration with children and young people.It connects climate change education with posthumanist studies of childhood in the social sciences and environmental humanities.It also offers opportunities for readers to encounter new theoretical and methodological approaches for collaborative art, inquiry, and learning with children.Drawing on three years of participatory research undertaken with 135 children in the Climate Change and Me (CC+Me) project, it takes children’s creative and affective responses to climate change as the starting point for the co-production of knowledge, community engagement, and the transformation of pedagogy and curriculum in schools.Thinking through process philosophy, and in particular, the works of Whitehead and Deleuze, the book develops new concepts and methods of creative inquiry which situate children’s learning, aesthetic production, and theory-building within a more-than-human ecology of experience.The book presents a series of generative openings and propositions for future research in the field of climate change education, while also offering wide-ranging applications for graduate students and researchers in childhood and youth studies, the environmental arts and humanities, cultural studies of science and technology, educational philosophy, and environmental education.
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CLIMATE CHANGE and the road to NET-ZERO : Science - Technology - Economics - Politics
CLIMATE CHANGE and the road to NET-ZERO is a story of how humanity has broken free from the shackles of poverty, suffering, and war and for the first time in human history grown both population and prosperity. It's also a story of how a single species has reconfigured the natural world, repurposed the Earth's resources, and begun to re-engineer the climate. The book uses these conflicting narratives to explore the science, economics, technology, and politics of climate change. NET-ZERO blows away the entrenched idea that solving global warming requires a trade-off between the economy and environment, present and future generations, or rich and poor, and reveals why a twenty-year transition to a zero carbon system is a win-win solution for all on planet Earth.From the Author"I wrote Climate Change and the road to Net-Zero to provide a generalist reader with a clear, comprehensive, and objective take on the issues surrounding climate change and air pollution. The book walks the reader through a history of energy, innovation, and the rise of human civilisation; how scientists have come to understand our past climate and can now forecast future change; the problems economists encounter as they attempt to piece together the potential monetary and social damages from climate inaction; and a technology agnostic assessment of potential climate change solutions (from climate-engineering to mitigation) including their costs, risks, and limitations. The book demonstrates why sustainable technologies such as wind, solar, and batteries get cheaper with scale of production, not time, and why a rapid transition to a fully-fledged net-zero system will end up significantly cheaper than remaining bound to fossil fuels, whilst also avoiding the worst impacts of climate change, and preventing nearly eight million premature deaths each year from air pollution. I hope Climate Change and the road to Net-Zero delivers an understanding of humanity's relationship with Earth that is as intriguing as Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin's The Human Planet, or Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens. I very much hope too that the book conveys the passion and call to action of David Wallace-Well's The Uninhabitable Earth, coupled with the sober economic analysis of The Climate Casino by William Nordhaus or Capital in the 21st century by Thomas Piketty, and that it provides the technical rigour of Sustainable Energy Without The Hot Air by David MacKay, the rationality of Hans Rosling's Factfulness, and the eternal hope of The Future We Choose by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac. I believe net-zero will be cheaper, cleaner, safer, more reliable, more sustainable, and will create more employment than if we remain bound to fossil fuels. After reading the book, I hope you will agree."Mathew Hampshire-Waugh, Author.
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Teaching Climate Change : Science, Stories, Justice
Teaching Climate Change: Science, Stories, Justice shows educators how climate change can be taught from any disciplinary perspective and in a transdisciplinary way, drawing on examples from the author's own classroom. The book sets out a radical vision for climate pedagogy, introducing an innovative framework in which the scientific essentials of climate change are scaffolded via three transdisciplinary meta-concepts: Balance/Imbalance, Critical Thresholds and Complex Interconnections.Author Vandana Singh grounds this theory in practice, drawing on examples from her own classroom to provide implementable ideas for educators, and to demonstrate how climate change can be taught from any disciplinary perspective in a transdisciplinary way.The book also explores the barriers to effective climate education at a macro level, focusing on issues such as climate misinformation/misconception, the exclusion of social and ethical concerns and a focus on technofixes.Singh uses this information to identify four key dimensions for an effective climate pedagogy, in which issues of justice are central: scientific-technological, the transdisciplinary, the epistemological and the psychosocial.This approach is broad and flexible enough to be adapted to different classrooms and contexts. Bridging the social and natural sciences, this book will be an essential resource for all climate change educators practicing in both formal and informal settings, as well as for community climate activists.
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The Science of Our Changing Climate
This compelling textbook provides a broad overview of the science underpinning our understanding of our climate, and how it is changing.Presented in clear and accessible language, and requiring only minimal algebra, it enables students to understand how our planet “behaves” under “normal conditions” and how human activity has moved us away from that normal.It walks the student comprehensively through the basic science, including how greenhouse gases absorb radiation and, crucially, a chapter on aerosols, major players in climate change.Diverse case studies and examples illuminate the impact and connections to real world events while review questions and exercises consolidate knowledge.Including the latest results from the IPCC 6th Assessment Report, it concludes by exploring climate modelling, equipping students with an understanding of how to simulate both past climate changes and projections of future climate change.Online resources include lecture slides, solutions and Excel code.
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Making Climate Tech Work : Policies That Drive Innovation
Climate tech is critical for averting planetary chaos.Half the greenhouse gas reductions required to reach “net-zero”climate targets in 2050 will need to come from technologies that have not yet been invented.Without effectivegovernment interventions, market incentives alone will not produce a rapid transition to a low-carbon economy.Thecommercial value of innovative climate technology, especially in its early phases, remains underpriced - far below itssocial value.The good news is that smart policies can change these dynamics and catalyze the necessary creativity andinvestment in clean technology, and its deployment.The key question is: which approaches can lead us to future carbonneutrality, and which are likely to fall short?In Making Climate Tech Work, environmental policy expert Alon Tal demystifies climate innovation programs around theworld - no policy background needed.Beginning with a review of government’s general role in technology policydevelopment, Tal assesses each policy alternative, describing eye-opening experiments in diverse countries, presenting arange of case studies, interviewing leading decarbonization experts, and interpreting new empirical data.Discover howGermany incentivized renewables; Denmark became a wind energy superpower; Australia phased out incandescent bulbs; California’s prisons pioneered low-carbon menus; and why carbon taxes have failed around the world, but couldbe designed for success. Tal distills the benefits and drawbacks of each policy, along with related ethical questions and public perceptions.Heconcludes by addressing two commonly overlooked issues in climate policy: disruption of workers’ livelihoods from theclean energy transition; and integrating the Global South into the planet’s new low-carbon economy - as the region thathas contributed least to climate change but which must be part of a global solution.Tal not only evaluates which policystrategies effectively reduce emissions but also how they can promote climate tech innovation. Humanity is ultimately in a race against time and effective climate policies are critical to ensure a sustainable future. Making Climate Tech Work serves as an essential primer for policymakers, academics, activists, and anyone interested inclimate solutions.
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Ecomodernism: Technology, Politics and The Climate Crisis
Is climate catastrophe inevitable? In a world of extreme inequality, rising nationalism and mounting carbon emissions, the future looks gloomy.Yet one group of environmentalists, the ‘ecomodernists’, are optimistic.They argue that technological innovation and universal human development hold the keys to an ecologically vibrant future.However, this perspective, which advocates fighting climate change with all available technologies – including nuclear power, synthetic biology and others not yet invented – is deeply controversial because it rejects the Green movement’s calls for greater harmony with nature. In this book, Jonathan Symons offers a qualified defence of the ecomodernist vision.Ecomodernism, he explains, is neither as radical or reactionary as its critics claim, but belongs in the social democratic tradition, promoting a third way between laissez-faire and anti-capitalism.Critiquing and extending ecomodernist ideas, Symons argues that states should defend against climate threats through transformative investments in technological innovation.A good Anthropocene is still possible – but only if we double down on science and humanism to push beyond the limits to growth.
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