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This article discusses how we might alter the language we use to discuss climate change in order to instill urgency and encourage meaningful action. It describes Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy's publication "An Ecotopian Lexicon," a book of words to better convey the crisis of climate change. In the spirits of science fiction writers who often create new vocabulary for their imagined worlds, the two professors assembled a committee of writers, scholars, and artists to compile loan words that would more adequately communicate the reality of the climate crisis. These words were taken from languages such as Thai, Gaeilge, Norwegian, and Luganda. They hope that intentionally influencing the language we treat climate change with will help influence the action and imagination we apply to it. As written, "our inability to imagine another path forward reflects a limited vocabulary. "

The island of Vanuatu is currently at risk of sea level rise due to climate change. If it continues to progress the way it has been, people will need to leave the island. The issue is that there are 110 languages spoken in Vanuatu. Because of this, people are worried that once people are displaced in multiple different countries, their languages will be lost forever.

This article explains Bill Nyeʻs perspective on how word use is extremely important when talking about climate change, as it can change how urgent people consider this issue. This shows the power of changing even just one word in a phrase or sentence, and how it can affect how language is perceived. One example they used was "phasing down coal" instead of "phasing out coal"; in reality, we want to eliminate the use of coal, but by using the word "down" instead of "out" it creates a different tone.

Climate change has an effect on the survival of languages. There are over 7,000 languages spoken around the world today, but only half of those languages are predicted to survive the century. Communities in Sulawesi were studied in order to witness the diminishing of languages.

Linguists are learning that climate change is another major factor contributing to the threat of language loss. This article dives into the effects of climate change on endangered languages such as Greenlandic and Marshallese, and explores how communities are taking action to protect their indigenous languages.

In this article, it talks about the psychology behind storytelling. For many of us, when reading over an informational article, we happen to miss a lot of facts and we tend to "glaze over it" without retaining much of what was said. This is very common and psychologists have found that subtly putting information in to a story will increase the reader/listener's chances of learning the material. A prime example of this was done by the University of Washington when hinting at climate change in the form of a story.