Abstract

Western climate communication is in dire need of reshaping how climate journalism and how climate science research fundamentally operate. As currently constructed—homogenous with a lack of racial and gender diversity—these fields are not producing the work required to effectively mitigate the impacts of the climate crisis. Enabling the voices of racially marginalized people and women and non-binary people is necessary because of the racialized and gendered impacts of the climate crisis—particularly in the Global South and marginalized communities of the Global North. A more representative western climate communication will produce work that contextualizes the colonial and intersectional impacts of the climate crisis, values moral clarity and intellectual honesty over objectivity, and uses both Indigenous knowledge and western science to understand our changing world.