ABSTRACT
Climate change is a compelling global leadership issue in the 21st century. Followers must play an integral part in creating and implementing solutions to climate change. This chapter examines the role of followers in addressing environmental issues, in particular climate change. Leaders cannot address the problems of climate change and their potential solutions on their own; they need followers to accomplish the monumental problems anthropomorphic climate change presents. In Costa Rica, global climate change is a topic that is brought up early on in grade school; thus, even though many people do not continue with their education beyond the 8th grade, they have been exposed to the topic. The fact that so many of the people that were surveyed for authors’ course research project indicated that they understood how climate change occurs suggests that this framework has worked, and the Costa Rican population is educated about the environmental problem.
