Dr. Lentz-Smith recommended some followup materials for those that are interested in learning more

Dig Deeper Recommendations from Dr. Lentz-Smith: 
Documentary Films about Katrina:
Spike Lee:  When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts 
Tia Lessin, Trouble the Water (2008)
Fictions of Black Land, Loss, and Resilience
Beasts of the Southern Wild, film (2012)
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Bigger picture:
Candis Callison, How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts (Duke University Press, 2014)
UN Environmental Programme: Climate Change and Security Risks
Jason Cons, “Staging Climate Security: Resilience and Heterodystopia in the Bangladesh Borderlands,” Cultural Anthropology, 33 (Spring 2018): 266-294.

Dr. Lentz-Smith referred several times to SNCC - the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - as an example of how a movement of individuals can foster fundamental change - learn more about SNCC at ​snccdigital.org/inside-sncc/the-story-of-sncc/

What have you read, seen or visited that might provide helpful additional insights?

Many students have mentioned feeling unable to have conversations about climate change because they do not feel they know enough about the science. First of all, we hope all of you know that you DO NOT NEED to be an expert in climate science to have a converstaion about what sort of climate future you want to live in. BUT, here are some really useful resources to grow your confidence in the the state of our knowledge on how our Earth's climate has changed and is changing in response to human activities.

The website ​skepticalscience.com presents most of the most common myths and misconceptions about climate change that are regularly used to stop or muddy conversations about climate change science. It does a great job explaining the science, and offers multiple levels of explanation, from basic to advanced. Most importantly, all of the materials are linked to peer reviewed literature, the site is run as a nonprofit, and many of the world's top climate scientists use it regularly and endorse the site. This is my go to for good explanations about complicated aspects of climate change. 

The website https://climate.nasa.gov/ provides a lot of background information about climate change, all of which is illustrated with breathtakingly beautiful and often concerning images of our planet.

In my work on coastal climate change, I use this website from NOAA https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/ all the time. It lets you see past and predicted changes in sea level and flooding and it also allows you to look at which communities and ecosystems are most at risk.

Finally, if you are looking for a great entry primer, I think the New York Times did a phenomenal job with this data supported explainer - https://www.nytimes.com/article/climate-change-global-warming-faq.html

What resources have you found most helpful in your own explorations of climate change?