What does language have to do with the climate crisis? Can we change our reality by simply changing our words? How have global institutions, like the UN, called for urgent 'code red' action for decades without meaningful response?
Cognitive linguistics is a branch of linguistics that combines knowledge from neuropsychology, cognitive science and linguistics to understand how language interacts with the brain. Using themes from cognitive linguistics, Susana will deconstruct how the language we use shapes our ability to understand what is going on with our planet as well as our capacity to create and identify solutions.
In this inspiring talk, Susana will show how the very language we use to talk about the crisis can be what ultimately lets us down in achieving our climate commitments. After hearing her talk, you will never want to use the phrase 'climate change' again. Susana Hancock is a climnateactivist, Iinguist and a multidisciplinary researcher on Arctic climate geopolitics. Since beginning university at age 14 to study astrophysics, she has gone on to complete three degrees at the University of Oxford, including a master's in linguistics and her recently-defencted doctorate on intractable conflict.
The environmental destruction she experienced living in the high north when she was younger solidified her interest in focusing on understanding the polar regions-areas warming twice as quickly as the rest of the planet and where ice melt is met with increased competition over resources and new geopolitical boundaries.
Susana has served as an expert reviewer for the IPCC, co-chaired a team with the UN's Decade of Ocean Science, is on the Executive Committee of the Association for Polar Early Career Scientists and now heads up a new international team addressing the socio-geopolitical impacts of the climate crisis in the polar regions. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]

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