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Mario Saraceni, Associate Professor in English Language and Linguistics, University of Portsmouth

How language barriers influence global climate literacy

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Our planet is getting hotter at an alarming rate. Climate change is one of the most serious global issues today. Its consequences affect every single human being on Earth. So it seems perfectly logical that scientific publications about global warming are written in the global language: English.

And yet, it is precisely because it is written in English, that climate science is largely inaccessible to the majority of people globally.

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