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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Taking on the Climate Crisis with Social Change
Stockholm University
This course was about the Climate Crisis. From perspectives of natural sciences, humanities and sustainability sciences, we learned how humans have become geological actors and how we are entangled with nature. We also learned about Earth's climate and natural cycles and how humans have perturbed them. Finally, we learned how to define a safe operating space for humans, how to repair the damage we have done to our climate and how we can build a better future so that we become better ancestors.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Alasdair Skelton
Professor of Geochemistry and Petrology
Stockholm University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Reflect on the role of humans in the Anthropocene.
- Describe how nature and culture are entwined.
- Explain how Earth's climate works.
- Assess the damage humans are causing to Earth's present and future climate.
- Identify a safe operating space for humans in the Anthropocene.
- Present solutions to the climate crisis.
- Create better futures by becoming a better ancestor.
Syllabus
- The Anthropocene: How the human has become a major geological actor and a driver in climate change
- Nature cultures - How nature and culture are entwined.
- Earth’s climate - How it works.
- Earth’s cycles - The natural cycles that make the Earth work and upon which we depend on for our survival.
- Human perturbations - How we have perturbed these natural cycles since the start of the Great Acceleration in 1950.
- Tipping points - What happens if we perturb these cycles too far.
- Planetary boundaries - Defining a safe operating space for humans.
- Repairing the damage - How do we fix the damage we have done to the Earth.
- Building a better future - How do become good ancestors for future generations.
Issued on 19th November 2021
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