What Can YOU Do About Climate Change? by Ankur Desai

You have probably heard stories in the news about climate change or global warming. If these stories are all true, what does it mean for the future? Or maybe the stories are exaggerated? Either way, how should we be good stewards of the only planet we’ve lived on? Solutions to global warming can sound either trivial or downright draconian and expensive. It’s overwhelming! Let’s discuss what we know about the science, what it means for ecosystems and society, and why developing climate policy or technological solutions are so difficult. What can you, as individuals or groups of concerned citizens, actually do to ensure a healthy, prosperous, sustainable, and just world for all of God’s children? I will present some of the basics of climate change and some of our research at UW-Madison on impacts of climate change to Wisconsin forests and wetlands. But most of all, I’d like to use this time to let you hold a discussion and ask all the questions you want about climate change and possible solutions.