Using Digital Tools for Studying About and Addressing Climate Change

2020 ◽

pp. 346-370

Author(s):

Richard W. Beach ◽

Blaine E. Smith

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Meaning Making ◽

Global Climate ◽

Role Play ◽

Digital Tools ◽

Human Beings ◽

Digital Activism ◽

Digital Videos ◽

Virtual And Augmented Reality

Grounded in research-based examples, this chapter provides a resource for students, teachers, and researchers to critically engage with issues of climate change through leveraging the affordances of digital tools. In particular, the authors discuss the affordances and challenges of students using digital tools to address climate change. They also review research in this field, including studies on visualizations, analyzing information, social media, digital videos, digital role-play, video games, and virtual and augmented reality. The chapter describes how digital tools offer meaning-making possibilities for students to propose solutions to climate change through engaging multimodal narratives, as well as share their voices through digital activism. Considering that global climate change is perhaps the most serious problem human beings have ever faced, this chapter offers implications for curriculum and instruction to aid educators with designing digital projects for students to understand climate change and find ways to take a stand.

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The human health impacts of global climate change

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202020401005 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 204 ◽

pp. 01005

Author(s):

Manqi Shu

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Human Health ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Social Economic ◽

Global Climate ◽

Information Age ◽

Natural Ecosystem ◽

Human Beings ◽

Cultural Economic ◽

Human Health Impacts

At present, the global effects of climate change have already gone beyond economic globalization. Man affects climate, and climate affects man. As an important part of the natural environment on which human beings live, any change of climate will have an impact on the natural ecosystem, social economic system and human health. Today, in the information age, human health is considered to be a combination of ecological, socio-cultural, economic and institutional decisions, and climate change has had an extremely important impact on human health. Therefore, this paper summarizes the trends of global climate change and the potential threats to human health, and proposes expectations for future development.

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Población, cambio climático y huella ambiental // Population, Climate Change and Environmental Footprint

Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment ◽

10.37536/ecozona.2018.9.1.2172 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 11-36

Author(s):

Manuel Peinado Lorca

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Greenhouse Gases ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Population Growth Rate ◽

Global Climate ◽

Human Beings ◽

Environmental Footprint ◽

The Earth ◽

Thomas Malthus ◽

Sobre Todo

Resumen En 1679 Anthony van Leeuwenhoek fue el primero en especular acerca del número de seres humanos que podría albergar la Tierra. Desde entonces y, sobre todo, desde que Thomas Malthus publicó en 1798 su célebre ensayo, el debate demográfico –particularmente exacerbado en la segunda mitad del siglo pasado, cuando la tasa de crecimiento poblacional duplicaba a la actual- se estableció en dos frentes, el de los boomsters, que sostienen que no hay límites para la explotación de los recursos terrestres, y el de los doomsters, para los que los recursos del planeta tienen unos límites que estamos a punto de desbordar. La detección en la década de 1990 de los primeros síntomas del calentamiento global ha marginado a unos y otros. Hoy, el debate no se centra en los límites de los recursos, sino en los excesos de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero con los que nuestro sistema económico consumista está alterando el equilibrio global de la Tierra. La superpoblación sigue siendo el problema, pero la unidad de medida de hoy es nuestra huella ambiental evaluada en términos de producción de gases de efecto invernadero, los responsables de la aceleración del cambio climático global. Abstract In 1679 Anthony van Leeuwenhoek was the first person speculating about the number of human beings that the Earth could harbour. Since then and, above all, since Thomas Malthus published his famous essay in 1798, the demographic debate—especially exacerbated in the second half of the last century, when the population growth rate doubled the current one—was established on two fronts, that of boomsters, who argue that there are no limits to the exploitation of the Erath resources; and that of doomsters, for whom the Earth resources have a limit that we are about to overflow. The detection in the 1990s of the first symptoms of global warming has marginalised ones and the others. Nowadays, the debate is not focused on the limits of resources, but on the excessive emissions of greenhouse gases with which our consumer economic system is altering the global balance of the Earth. Overpopulation is still the problem, but the current unit of measure is our environmental footprint assessed in terms of the production of greenhouse gases, which are responsible for the global climate change.

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Introducing Contemporary Environmental Ethics

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199941339.013.1 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Stephen M. Gardiner ◽

Allen Thompson

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Environmental Ethics ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Aquatic Ecosystems ◽

Global Climate ◽

Human Beings ◽

History Analysis ◽

The World ◽

Broad Variety ◽

Species Extinctions

Today humanity faces radical global climate change, mass species extinctions, and unprecedented transformations to both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems across the globe. Environmental ethics is an academic subfield of philosophy concerned with normative and evaluative propositions about the world of nature and, perhaps more generally, the moral fabric of relations between human beings and the world we occupy. This Handbook contains 45 newly commissioned essays written by leading experts and emerging voices and represent some of the best and most contemporary thinking in environmental ethics. The chapters range over a broad variety of issues, concepts, and perspectives that are both central to and characteristic of the field, thus providing an authoritative but accessible account of the history, analysis, and prospect of ideas that are essential to contemporary environmental ethics.

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