ABSTRACT
Climate change forces us to recognize and acknowledge how human activity has transformed and shaped the Earth. Anthropologists have critical roles to play in understanding such transformations, their impacts, how we respond, how we engage in worldmaking practices, and how we imagine ourselves in the future. The historic global agreement in Paris in 2015 to reduce carbon emissions was hailed as a breakthrough for climate policy. Arctic sea ice cover is diminishing at an accelerated rate and the loss of ice increases radiative forcing and contributes to global warming. Anthropology has long had a concern with understanding practices of weather modification in different social and cultural settings. The experience of climate change, the exposure to its negative impacts or the abilities of communities to seize the opportunities it may bring, depends on where people are socially, culturally, economically, and geographically but also on how they are positioned in terms of institutional, political and legal contexts.
