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Climate is culture

Nature Climate Change volume 2, pages 137–140 (2012)Cite this article

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In 2001, British artist David Buckland founded Cape Farewell to bridge a communication gap between the science of climate change and the societal shift required. He explains why we need a cultural response to climate change.

Storytellers, C. S. Lewis said, carry meaning in a way that rational truth-tellers cannot. “For me,” the novelist wrote, “reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.”

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Buckland, D. Climate is culture. Nature Clim Change 2, 137–140 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1420

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