Communities across Africa are among the most vulnerable when it comes to the climate crisis, but those migrating are often the ones who are climate literate, according to a study published in the science journal Climatic Change..
13 November 2022 - 09:20The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says in Kenya more than 90% of open water sources are drying up in some areas. About 650,000 children are acutely malnourished.Communities across Africa are among the most vulnerable when it comes to the climate crisis, but those migrating are often the ones who are climate literate.
Since climate literacy is associated with individuals with higher news consumption, education and specialist occupations, communities are experiencing a brain drain at a time they can afford it least. Speaking to TimesLIVE at the Falling Walls Science Summit in Berlin this week, co-author Daniel Meierriks, from WZB Berlin Social Science, said between the 1970s and 2000s, temperatures had risen far quicker than at any other time, creating direct and indirect effects on communities.
But on average in their large-scale study, he and co-authors found that “only 44% of respondents are climate literate”. The study sought to ascertain if people had even heard of the climate crisis and if they could pinpoint how it made things worse, directly and indirectly.What emerged is that the “correlates of climate literacy were news consumption, education, urban living and specialist occupations”.
Because of this, communities are losing parts of their population that they really should not want to lose.
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