Climate Literacy in Education

The Long Game

Climate Education After DOGE

Marek Oziewicz

Nick Kleese

University of Minnesota

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24926/cle.v3i1.6955

Keywords: U.S. presidential election, climate erasure, climate literacy education, climate devastation, energy transition, persistence

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Abstract

In this Introduction, we reflect on the state of climate education six months into the second Trump presidency. While the damage done and stakes ahead are undeniable, we envision possibilities for climate action and climate literacy education going forward. We reflect on what teachers can do to accelerate integration of climate literacy across all subject areas and how a changing understanding of climate literacy as a holistic socioscientific and cultural competence is gaining ground across the world. Ours is a long game, and we are in it through all the bumps in the transition.