Human-driven climate heating reaches 1.37°C in 2025, with accelerating heat accumulation in Earth system
Original framing: “Global warming hit 1.37°C in 2025, with Earth accumulating heat at an accelerating rate” — Phys.org
The acceleration of global warming parallels the Industrial Revolution's expansion in the 19th century, when colonial powers began large-scale fossil fuel extraction. The current crisis is a continuation of that legacy, with emissions from historical industrialization still affecting the climate today.
The 1.37°C global temperature rise in 2025 is a systemic outcome of centuries of industrialization, colonial resource extraction, and fossil fuel dependency.
Integrating Indigenous ecological knowledge with scientific models can provide a more holistic understanding of climate resilience. Cross-cultural perspectives reveal that climate change is not only a technical problem but a moral and spiritual crisis requiring transformation in values and systems. To address this, we must implement just transition policies, support marginalized voices in climate governance, and reframe climate change as a collective responsibility rather than a technical challenge. Historical parallels and future modeling both underscore the urgency of systemic change, while artistic and spiritual responses offer new ways of seeing and acting.