ABSTRACT
The framing of climate change has played a major role in the current lack of a collective response. Today, there is a growing appeal from the scientific community and policymakers to promote community-based adaptation to climate change, which embodies small-scale and grassroots-driven adaptation practices. The involvement of the capitalist system in climate change has been widely recognized. As a result, natural resources are depleting and the system is creating inequalities and concentrations of wealth, in addition to being ecologically unsustainable. Yet it is still in force. The examination here proposes the current picture of climate change framing, subsequently modified based on Gandhi’s thoughts. Gandhi’s ideas provide an important approach to understanding not only why integrating communities is crucial but also how they can be included as active actors in the production of science. The implications for ownership of the issue from a ground-up perspective suggest new partnerships and an equitable as well as effective way forward. Gandhi’s ideas suggest that local production and moderate consumption, according to the basic needs of each individual, would allow maintaining a balance with our environment.
