{"id":40802249887,"date":"2020-09-30T15:32:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T19:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802249887"},"modified":"2020-10-07T16:40:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T20:40:49","slug":"associate-dean-duckett-on-covid-19-and-the-political-context-of-climate-change-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/associate-dean-duckett-on-covid-19-and-the-political-context-of-climate-change-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Associate Dean Duckett on \u2018COVID-19 and the Political Context of Climate Change Solutions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catherine N. Duckett, Ph.D., associate dean of the School of Science, recently published an article, \u2018COVID-19 and the Political Context of Climate Change Solutions<\/a>,\u2019 in the International Journal, Science Education and Civic Engagement, an online peer\u2011reviewed journal published by the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement.<\/p>\n

The summer 2020 issue of the journal includes a special section on \u2018Teaching Through COVID\u2019 with reflections that document experiences and lessons learned while teaching science and civic engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic. In her article, Duckett describes how the pandemic provided an opportunity to ask students enrolled in her senior-level interdisciplinary class, \u201cScience and Politics of Climate Change,\u201d to apply knowledge of social and political responses to the health crisis to climate change.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy students were near the epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis at Monmouth University in New Jersey, which closed for spring break four days early because of an illness on campus,\u201d Duckett noted. \u201cConsequently, they were paying attention…Students were watching the news differently than previously, and the COVID crisis helped them apply what they were seeing and feeling to present and future climate problems and solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duckett said that in the last four weeks of the course, the class discussed political and technical solutions to climate crisis without specific attention to COVID-19. Students, however, \u201ccontinued to compare needed climate solutions to emissions results achieved in various areas because of COVID lockdowns and economic slowdown. Their comments were clear indications that they were paying attention to the news. More importantly, they identified political will on the part of individuals, corporations, and governments as critical to climate adaptation and mitigation successes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

One student wrote, \u201cThe reading that I found more persuasive for this week was \u2018Meet the Climate Science Deniers Who Downplayed COVID-19 Risks.\u2019 Its focus was on the organizations and individuals who claimed the Coronavirus would not be as detrimental to society as it is. This reading also clearly connected the claims of these individuals with their retractions as things got worse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duckett said that by the end of the class, \u201cAll of the students in my class recognized that the COVID-19 response was analogous to a lack of political will to address climate change. Many recognized the signature of science denial in both responses, which was something many in my class had struggled to accept and understand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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