Climate change, the future, and higher education: two warnings from fall 2024

What might the climate crisis mean for the world?  What impacts could it have on higher education, and how might academics respond? As part of my continued exploration of these questions, today I’d like to draw your attention to two major reports from this month.  They are each packed with scholarship. Both call for action from the world – right now. The first is “The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth” (Ripple and Wolf et al, BioScience, 08 October 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae087). As the title indicates, this paper offers a top level summation of where the climate... [Read more...]