The Power of Storytelling in Climate Action
Module Five

Climate Change - People and Planet

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To help it really sink in, read the following article titled “What Is Climate Change? A Really Simple Guide.” It’s a short and easy read that you help reiterate the realities of climate change discussed in this lecture. Remember that the goal here is to increase your knowledge of the subject and thereby increase your confidence in talking about climate action.

After reading, open the notes app on your phone and answer the following questions:

If you were talking to a friend or colleague, how would you define climate change? Take a moment and think about the following: what motivated you to take this course? What inspires you to become a climate storyteller? If you can articulate your motive, then you will be able to tell a great story.

  • Abbasi, K., Ali, P., Barbour, V., Benfield, T., Biggins-Domingo, K., Erhabor, G.E., Hancocks, S., Horton, R., Laybourn-Langton, L., Mash, R., Sahni, P., Sharief, W.M., Yonga, P., Zielinksi, C. (2023). “Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency.” Medical Teacher. Vol. 45. Issue 12. 355-358.

    Common English Bible. (2011). Nashville: Common English Bible.

    “Evidence: How Do We Know Climate Change Is Real?” (2024). NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet. https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

    Hawkins, E. (2024). “What is climate change? A really simple guide.” BBC News: Our Planet Now. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-24021772

    Jacobson, M. (2017). “XEIET100—Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for a Sustainable Future: Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies Program.” Stanford University’s School of Engineering. Lecture. Listened to 2024.

    Perkins, A.K. (2021). “’The Poor Feel it the Most’: The Antilles Bishops, the Poor, and Climate Change. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 80. No. 4. 1155-1172.

    “The impact of climate change on our planet’s animals.” (2022). IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare). [Blog Post] https://www.ifaw.org/journal/impact-climate-change-animals

    Trájer, A.J., Nagy, G., and Domokos, E. (2019). “Exploration of the heterogeneous effect of climate change on ozone concentration in an urban environment.” International Journal of Environmental Health Research. Vol. 29. No. 3. 276-289.

    Viveros-Uehara, T., (2023). “Climate Change and Economic Inequality: Are We Responding to Health Injustices?” Health and Human Rights Journal. FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health. Vol. 25. No. 2. 191-197.