Learning Climate Change Adaptation from Traditional Communities

Serious consideration of Climate ChangeClimate change and its attendant devastation is most absent in public discoursePublic discourse in this country. The mediaMedia is either unable to tell the story or tell it in a way that is understandable to ordinary citizens. This is partly because the media are entrenched within the economic and social systems that are significant drivers of climate change. Further, reporting on climate change largely consists of covering inter-governmental conferences, negotiations, and very dense scientific reports that, important as they may be, are incomprehensible to lay readers and viewers. This talk will look at how this calls for a very different kind of reporting—climate changeClimate change through the voices and lived experiences of everyday people.