ABSTRACT
In a time of significant turmoil, when technology and the climate are changing at an unprecedented pace, and fake news from climate deniers is derailing sustainable actions, we need to reconsider the role of education. This article asserts the importance of teaching students critical media literacy to prepare them to make sense of the messages and create media that can confront the omissions and misinformation of the climate crisis. The conceptual understandings and questions of critical media literacy provide an inquiry-based framework to promote analysis and production that can challenge dominant ideologies and hierarchies of power. This anthropogenic climate disruption requires an educational response that will promote critical thinking and empowerment for social and environmental justice.
