Environmental Sustainability
Module 1
The Great Change: Confronting Our Complex Climate Crisis
9 Courses
A Beginner's Guide to Environmental Science: Wicked Problems and Possible Solutions Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Central Queensland University Started: 29/01/2023 Finished: 31/01/2023 Planet Earth: Understanding and Protecting our Environment Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Leeds Started: 18/01/2023 Finished: 19/01/2023 Science and Engineering of Climate Change Platform: Coursera Institution: EDHEC Business School Started: Finished: Our Changing Climate: Past, Present and Future Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Reading Started: 29/09/2017 Finished: 03/10/2017 Our Hungry Planet: Agriculture, People and Food Security Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Reading Started: 29/09/2017 Finished: 03/10/2017 Invisible Worlds: Understanding the Natural Environment Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Exeter Started: 18/04/2023 Finished: 18/04/2023 Tipping Points: Climate Change and Society Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Exeter Started: 18/04/2023 Finished: 18/04/2023 The Arctic as a System Platform: Coursera Institution: University of Colorado Boulder Started: 20/02/2023 Finished: The Changing Arctic: Present, Past, & Future Platform: Coursera Institution: University of Colorado Boulder Started: 26/02/2023 Finished:
3 Books
Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril Author: Margaret Heffernan Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd Published: 2012 Started: 04/02/2014 Finished: 29/08/2014
This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook Author: Extinction Rebellion Publisher: Penguin Audio Published: 2019 Started: 19/09/2019 Finished: 21/09/2019 Hope in Hell: A decade to confront the climate emergency Author: Jonathon Porritt Publisher: Simon Schuster Audio UK Published: 2020 Started: 12/03/2021 Finished: 13/03/2021
“Exactly 40 years ago, scientists from 50 nations met at the First World Climate Conference (in Geneva 1979) and agreed that alarming trends for climate change made it urgently necessary to act. Since then, similar alarms have been made through the 1992 Rio Summit, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, and the 2015 Paris Agreement, as well as scores of other global assemblies and scientists’ explicit warnings of insufficient progress. Yet greenhouse gas emissions are still rapidly rising, with increasingly damaging effects on the Earth’s climate. An immense increase of scale in endeavors to conserve our biosphere is needed to avoid untold suffering due to the climate crisis“
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency, BioScience, Volume 70, Issue 1, January 2020
The rapid growth of global warming and climate change since the mid-20th century is hugely alarming for all life on Earth and the tackling of climate crisis absolutely needs to be the number one priority of all nations to tackle in the 21st-century.
What the climate crisis is and how it is affecting everyone on the planet is a topic that has taken a number of decades to break through into the mainstream and become common knowledge.
None the less, that knowledge is complex and can at times appear to be very contradictory… hence why I have a module devoted to purely understanding the science of the climate crisis and how it will impact the world moving forwards.
Tackling the climate crisis is the responsibility of every person on this planet and that process begins by understanding the problems that need to be solved.