Climate Interviews (ENGL 1102, Georgia State University, Fall 2023)

Now that the effects of anthropogenic climate change are becoming more widely apparent, writers and scholars have emphasized the importance of keeping a record of planetary change as it unfolds. Because climate and environmental concerns differ from place to place, firsthand accounts comprise an important part of this record. In this class, students paid careful attention to how such accounts become essential to documenting the ecological crises that appeared in our course reading. This assignment asked them to collect an audio or video recording of a person’s account or testimony of their experience with environmental change and to editorialize it, framing its importance to listeners or viewers.

Here are some of their interviews:

O’Neil Climate Interview Transcript