In a Warming World

A podcast by ENGL 266: Ecocriticism at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Episodes

Episode 5: Climate Change As Colonization

December 8, 2021

In this series we’ve addressed the ways climate concerns are stymied and undermined through explanations that reduce climate collapse to a kind of inevitability. While we’ve addressed proposed solutions to each of these framings that focus on one aspect, economic, political or ideas of human being, in this episode we’re going to look at an...

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Episode 4: Climate Change as Human Nature

December 8, 2021

Lack of political action on the climate emergency can lead people to feel fatalistic. Generation Z especially can feel they have been born “after the end” to borrow James Berger’s phraseology. In a generational sense especially, it is often difficult to think about what to do when it already feels too late — that all...

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Episode 3: Climate or the Economy

December 8, 2021

Welcome to “In a Warming World” a podcast that critically examines cultural narratives that minimize climate change in order to reveal how ecological social change is not only possible but necessary. I’m Moira Marquis, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Economic concerns are some of the most compelling ways...

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Episode 2: Climate Indifference

December 8, 2021

While people that express outright skepticism are fewer and fewer, indifference to climate change seems to be on the rise. Indifference in the face of climate change can result from the perceived inefficacy of activism, the perceptible lack of concern from others in daily life, the inability to afford expensive, individual environmental alternatives like solar...

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Episode 1: Climate Skepticism in the US and Germany

December 8, 2021

“Climate change?!! What a hoax!” “Of course! It’s just heavy summer rain.” Source: roth-cartoons.de/projekt/klimaluege/ Students from UNC Chapel Hill and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) discuss the similarities and differences between U.S. and German climate skeptics. This project has been generously supported by UNC Chapel Hill’s Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs an...

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Introduction: In a Warming World

October 14, 2021 • 1 min

2020 has set a new record for hottest year to date. Deadly heat waves, powerful storms, and out-of-control wildfires, are only some of the negative ecological consequences. Social consequences range from increased anxiety and depression, to a negative outlook on future generations. And yet, it seems as if most societies are still ignoring or minimizing...

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In a Warming World

Episodes

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Episode 3: Climate or the Economy

Episode 2: Climate Indifference

Episode 1: Climate Skepticism in the US and Germany

Introduction: In a Warming World

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Episode 5: Climate Change As Colonization

Episode 4: Climate Change as Human Nature