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Published

2025-12-15

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Vol. 3 No. 3 (2025): Climate Literacy in Education

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Editorial

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Copyright (c) 2025 Marek Oziewicz; Nick Kleese

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Introduction: The Path Forward:

The “Curb-Cut Effect” for Climate Action

Marek Oziewicz

Nick Kleese

University of Minnesota

Keywords: climate action, climate literacy education, societal transformation, egalitarianism, collective movements

Abstract

In this Introduction we look to justice movements of the past to reaffirm the work of the present. When the Disability Rights movement won widespread adoption of sidewalk curb-cuts, the effect increased accessibility for everyone—even beyond communities with limited mobility. Curb-cuts fundamentally changed the way people move through built infrastructure. What might be the curb-cut effect for the climate movement? What role might climate literacy education play?

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