Climate Change Hope in America
Victoria Herrmann presenting climate change impacts in Shaktoolik, Alaska at the National Geographic Society. Photo: Wesley Della Villa
Telling and sharing stories, from the scientific to the personal, is one the most important tools we have to survive climate change. Stories help us to share facts, knowledge, and experiences about the causes and effects of a warming world. But more than just educational tools, stories are how we make sense of the world we live in. The story you read in the newspaper or the documentary you watch on Netflix holds the immense ability to shape what we see and don’t see. Those visibilities and invisibilities shift our perspectives. And it’s those perceptions upon which we base our actions.
The Arctic Institute Summer Readings 2017
- A Continual State of Emergency: Climate Change and Native Lands in Northwest Alaska
- Self-Preservation: Amid Debate, An Alaskan Village Decides to Move Inland
- When the Sea Wall Breaks: Climate Change in Teller, Alaska
- Fighting the Rising Tide in Shaktoolik, Alaska
- Climate Change Hope in America
- A Delicate Balance of Commerce and Climate Change in Nome, Alaska
- Frontier of Change
We are at a point today where every decision we make counts in deciding what America’s climate change story will be – including the fundamental decision of how we tell climate change stories. In this video, Managing Director Victoria Herrmann presents a story of hope and heroes from Shaktoolik, Alaska as part of her research project America’s Eroding Edges. The talk, given on June 23, 2017 at the National Geographic Society in Washington, DC, is part of the Creative Mornings series.