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READING, Pa. – First-year students at Alvernia University talked about the effects of climate change on communities around the globe.
Philadelphia Inquirer editor Devi Lockwood spoke with hundreds of students at the PLEX Monday. She talked about her book: "1,001 Voices on Climate Change."
Lockwood says the book chronicles her five-year journey around the world, documenting the stories of people affected by the changing climate. She says she wants to make climate change more personal.
"I think the language that we use to discuss climate change is often really abstract and inaccessible," Lockwood said. "And by interviewing people in different countries around the world, I found a way of hopefully starting to humanize this crisis."
Lockwood says lots of people are living with the affects of climate change right now. She adds it can be challenging to discuss the subject.
"I think, candidly, we just need a lot more listening," she said. "Any type of crisis requires creative solutions, and I think the best solutions, the most localized ones come when we are able to make space and time to hear the people around us and the people who are most impacted."
Lockwood says she hopes that students she spoke to will think about what they can add to the conversation.
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