ABSTRACT
The teaching and research needed to understand and mitigate climate disruption touches many environmental concerns-e.g. biodiversity, energy use, geoengineering, ocean acidification, deforestation, human rights. It involves multiple disciplines-e.g. atmospheric chemistry, oceanography, politics, history, economics, computer modeling, agricultural science, conservation biology, ethics, urban planning. Their “separate” nature erodes. How, then, to approach climate disruption, harnessing the expertise of specialties yet integrating them into the whole of their interactions? The great transition that must occur in the next few decades, weaning humanity off fossil fuels and establishing low-to-zero carbon economies, requires an unprecedented coordination of science, politics, international relations, culture, technology, the arts, religious stewardship, and education.
