practise

1. CULTURAL
HISTORIES OF
CLIMATE CHANGE
Stephanie, Vivian, Kiti

2. OVERVIEW
• Climate change is a global issue
• Altered our physical and social world
• Humanity’s current perception of nature-
domination and control
• Human progress measured and evaluated in
terms of societies domination and exploitation
of the Earth’s natural resources
• Culture underlies the way in which we
understand climate change and also the
measures we must take to address the issue

3. Climate changes culture
• Climate influences culture and social understanding.
•Seasonal Rituals (The Rain Caller, May Day, Sacrifices)
• Spiritual imagination (Poetry)

4. Climate changes Culture
• Feared the climate’s
unpredictable weather.
• Climate shaped culture
through insecurity.
• God and Climate?

5. Culture changes Climate
• One of the impacts of
climate change is
human activities.
• Rise of Industrial
Revolution means more
green gas released into
the atmosphere creating
a warmer planet and
slowly changing to the
way people live.
• People must plan now
ahead.

6. How to fix this?
• Economist introducing a society built on ‘low-carbon
emission’ to reduce resources.
• However this creates an inequality of societal processes
around the world of exploitation of energy, organisation and
extraction (Developed world vs. undeveloped world.)
• Carrying out a global programme for adapting, particularly for
the poorest and most vulnerable people of this world, can
best be described as climate injustice.
• It is a complex issue.

7. Hope for the Future?
• Ways people can make a difference by changing their
behaviours towards the environment?
• As individuals:
- Save energy
- Recycling household waste
- Composting kitchen garbage
- Landscape trimming and paper waste
- Change to fluorescent bulbs to save on electricity
- Turn off power points when not in use
- Walk, bike or public transport instead of driving