Decoding Climate Change: Bridging the Gap for Sustainable Societal Space Through Critical Thinking

In the midst of the climate crisis, taking a critical approach to climate concerns becomes vital and revolutionary in generating creative solutions, and addressing societal expectations and views. Understanding climate change and its effects on socio-ecological concerns necessitates understanding and awareness of certain core climate change theories, as well as climate philosophical viewpoints. The purpose of this study is to present a new line of argument in the reconceptualization of critical climate change thinking, with an emphasis on climate change as the most serious issue of our time. Based on this context, this study revealed and recognized critical thinking and arguments for understanding crucial climate change concepts by critically exploring a variety of ideas, including climate gap, climate engineering, climate kids, and climate education. The core findings show that people from marginalized communities, such as people of colour and those with low incomes, endure a disproportionate cost of the effects of climate change and are frequently excluded from important conversations on viable solutions. And, the practical application of climate engineering encountered ethical and legal challenges that necessitated careful thought in order to be successful in real-world circumstances. Climate kids, on the other hand, is a novel concept that aids youth and children in the formation of future climate leaders, and climate change education is a more significant component of effective policy implementation at the local and community levels. Moving away from the overarching narratives of critical concern, our addition to existing knowledge is to explain why and how critical thinking is necessary for unravelling and conceptualizing the complex nature of climate change. In addition, we advocate for a bottom-up social approach, emphasizing the importance of a ‘societal space’ as a different and distinctive viewpoint.