1. The Big Picture and Tools for Thinking
- Introduction to the Course
- The Anthropocene
- Problem-oriented Thinking: Our Method
- Mapping the Climate Change Landscape
2. Climate Science and Basic Terms
- Introduction: What is (Climate) Science?
- Climate Science as a Body of Knowledge
- Climate Science as Institutions
- Climate Science as Methods and Tools
- From Data to Meaning: Trustworthy Science Sense-makers
- Building our Climate Change Vocabulary
- What Does it Mean and What Must Be Done?
3. Theories of Climate Politics
- Introduction: Climate Science in Context
- Climate Politics as Applied Science
- Climate Politics as Paradox
- Climate Politics as Propaganda
- Media, Climate, and Cancel Culture
- We are F****d
- We are Fine
- Climate Change and Capitalism
4. Climate Policies: What are the Options?
- The Kaya Identity and the Overton Window
- Adaptation, Mitigation, and Geoengineering
- The Contemporary Climate Policy Landscape: Toward Standards and Investments?
- Decarbonization, Carbon Budgets, and Carbon Taxes
- The Green New Deal
- Electrify Everything
5. The 2020 US Presidential Election
- Deregulation, Energy Dominance, and the Trump Administration
- The Honey Badger in the Coal Mine
- Fracking During the Obama-Biden Years
- The Stakes of the 2020 Election
- Election Reactions, 1
- Election Reactions, 2
6. Climate Solutions and Futures
- Climate Change as a Collective Action Problem
- Our Way of Life
- The Tech-Fix Titans
- Wishful Thinking and Climate Change
- Climate Justice as Growing vs. Sharing
- The Big Picture
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