Impact of Globalization on Climate Change: A Step towards Climate Change Literacy

Abstract

Climate change is a phenomenon of global warming and ocean acidification.  In a democratic society, any non-scientist persons may be asked to render the judgment on the queries of the scientific topics such as climate change, nutrition, evolution and genetically modified organisms. Even the non-science students are studying these topics but the underlining problem is that both the students and the teachers do not apply the topical knowledge to the socio-scientific contexts.  They fail to apply their knowledge to their daily life situations. In this paper attempt is made by the Chemistry teacher to integrate the Chemistry curriculum with the climate change.  It provides an opportunity to motivate, enhance the class-room experience and equip the learners to use the fundamental understanding of Science, knowledge, skills and competence to address some of the challenges.  Such initiation is especially important to catalyze and to enhance the climate literacy among students and teachers because our nation is in vulnerability to climate change. The present paper has dual goals: first to improve the outcome based learning of Chemistry concept and then to emancipate and to empower learners to understand and respond effectively towards climate change.