Educación, comunicación y cambio climáticoresistencias para la acción social responsable

Résumé

The article treats the issue of education and communication regarding climate change. Educational programs on this vital topic consist of processes of scientific literacy based on information tending toward the findings of climate science, without considering the respective social experience or a series of social and cultural factors and processes intervening in building a social representation of this phenomenon. That is essential for focusing properly on the challenges for education and communication. The main �barrier� to the necessary social change is the complex structural nature of the issue, in which there are obstacles of a moral, socio-political, cultural, socio-cognitive and psycho-social nature conditioning the social representation by people and hindering the adoption of significant changes in lifestyles, both individual and collective, related to human activities that imbalance climate. Three types of obstacles are analyzed and proposals are posited to overcome them. The final part develops two hypothetical social scenarios based on the two extremes foreseen by the IPCC, acknowledging strategies centered on mitigation or on adaptation.