How writing about places people know makes the climate crisis less abstract

By Sam Illingworth, Professor of Creative Pedagogies, Edinburgh Napier University
Barbara Barrow, Senior Lecturer, English Literature, Lund University
Ellen Turner, Senior Lecturer, English Literature, Lund University

The discourse around climate change can lead to anxiety, detachment or resignation because it often stretches language in ways that make the world feel distant.

Global averages and abstract temperature thresholds make it harder for people to relate to climate change in their own specific location. And while the language of sustainable…

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