The Fall 2020 issue of Dædalus on “Witnessing Climate Change” features 16 personal narratives about climate-related work by professionals from multiple fields, backgrounds, and generations who feel a responsibility to share what they know and take action. 

The volume includes: Nancy L. Rosenblum: "Introduction: Paths to Witnessing, Ethics of Speaking Out"; Robert Jay Lifton: "On Becoming Witnessing Professionals"; Naomi Oreskes: "What Is the Social Responsibility of Climate Scientists?"; Robert H. Socolow: "Witnessing for the Middle to Depolorize the Climate Change Conversation"; Dennis F. Thompson: "The Professional Ethics of Witnessing Professionals"; Michael B. Gerrard: "An Environmental Lawyer's Fraught Quest for Legal Tools to Hold Back the Seas"; Mark A. Mitchell: "Racism as a Motivator for Climate Justice"; Patrick L. Kinney: "From Air Pollution to the Climate Crisis: Leaving the Comfort Zone"; Rebecca Henderson: "Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual & the End of the World as We Know It"; David W. Titley: "Task Force Climate Change: A Patron Saint of Lost Causes, or Just Ahead of Its Time?"; Elke U. Weber: "Seeing Is Believing: Understanding & Aiding Human Responses to Global Climate Change"; Jessica F. Green: "Less Talk, More Walk: Why Climate Change Demands Activism in the Academy"; Nancy L. Rosenblum & Rafe Pomerance: "A Conversation"; Carolyn Kormann: "The Coral Is Not All Dead Yet"; Scott Gabriel Knowles: "Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene: A Historian Witnesses Climate Change on the Korean Peninsula"; and Antonio Oposa Jr.: "Let Me Tell You a Story"