While climate change is often framed as a scientific issue — a complex web of physical, biological, and technical systems — conversations around our global climate challenges can underemphasize the role of human behavior, values, and ethics in framing problems and devising solutions. A recent essay in The Conversation describes the need for "many kinds of brain power" and a broader humanistic context to solve climate change.
Read "Why Science Needs the Humanities to Solve Climate Change," by Steven D. Allison and Tyrus Miller here.
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