Name: Xavi Solish

Social Justice Group: Global Warming (A)

Date of Fieldwork: January 16, 2025

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork:

My partner Harvey and I visited Washington Square Park and asked people the questions, do you believe climate change is real, and do you think it will affect New York. We got around seven responses that said climate change was definitely real and it will affect New York. Two people although, believed that climate change was not real and said that the world was run on capitalism and not science.

This was interesting because even though we had heard from so many people that climate change was real, it was surprising to listen to people who believed that it was not. Even though some people did not think that climate change was real, it was still important to listen to a different perspective than what we had heard earlier.