Episode 13 is an Intro to the field of Climate Change
Hello, and welcome to the blog of the What’s Next in Social Sciences podcast!
It has been a year since we started this podcast! And just in the last few weeks, one of us got married, came down with COVID, and then recovered. Phew! Okay, that was a lot of exclamation marks in just a few lines. Calming down… Yes, so we’re back with another “Intro to” episode, and the topic is perhaps the most important one ever — Climate Change.
Unless you have been living under a rock, on another planet, or on a deserted island with no human contact, you would have heard of global warming and climate change, which is a result of excessive burning of fossil fuels and emissions of greenhouse gases. Now while the phenomenon falls squarely within the realm of natural sciences, the way we engage with it can only be understood through the lens of social sciences. What kind of human activities brought us here? Which societies contributed to this most? Who will be the most harshly impacted by the effects? How do we all take responsibility and act collectively to mitigate and adapt?
Our guest for this episode is Shria Goel, who holds her Masters is Climate Change and Sustainability Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and works as a Consultant in the climate change advisory wing of the well-known consulting firm PwC.
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In additional resources, we have a few avenues for learning more about climate change:
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- NASA on Climate Change
- The UNFCC
- A serious podcast about climate change
