Poetry Mobilizes Climate Action

Organized poetry and arts–science collaborations can translate technical climate assessments into emotionally resonant, participatory narratives that increase public urgency and civic engagement. By hosting communal poems, interactive platforms, and scientist–poet convenings, these efforts aim to make abstract risks tangible and to seed localized collective responses. — If effective, arts‑led storytelling could alter how citizens perceive climate risk and thereby change political pressure, grassroots organizing, and willingness to accept policy tradeoffs.