Akhila Kosaraju on LinkedIn: Climate change has a relatability problem. Indians can’t relate to… | 179 comments

“We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and suffering,

First and foremost, address data gaps, says Maharaj. "We don't have data on future sea-level rise and wave climate projections for most islands. Think about that. We're so exposed and vulnerable on our coastlines." Islands also need more information on the value of ecosystems services to tackling climate change, she says, and studies to model their

There’s another future scenario lurking underneath this one that is much more likely to happen—in fact, it’s almost inevitable, according to most climate scientists. It’s the possibility that many cities and nations will need to relocate their entire populations over the next fifty years, because of the growing climate crisis. If you change “astero

Analyzing the language we use to describe climate change is particularly urgent, according to Dr. Stibbe, as our words directly influence how we tackle it. For example, the neutral-sounding term “anthropogenic climate change” collapses human responsibility for the climate crisis into a neat, innocuous noun. “There’s no actual agents doing anything,