Climate change, now that’s a term that’s starting to lose its meaning.

What climate change really means was the focus of a  talk given by Massachusetts Institute of Techonology PhD candidate in History, Anthropology, and Science Technology and Soceity, Candis Callison at the UBC School of Journalism this afternoon.

When Callison visited the Alaskan town of Kotzebue, she was surprised to find an absence of dialogue on climate change.

“That’s not what we talk about,” said a resident of Kotzebue, “It’s what’s on CNN.”

As Callison got to know the community, she found that the people of Kotzebue do in fact, talk about climate change. They just don’t call it that.

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Genome British Columbia has put on some cool public forums this year. Last month, I went to one on genetic testing and wrote a story on what the experts had to say. Maybe I’ll be asking for one this Christmas…