Do you often feel overwhelmed in the face of the climate emergency and socio-environmental conflicts? How many successful climate struggles do you know? This course seeks to help students gain critical skills for thinking through the current climate crisis in depth while at the same time becoming acquainted with real-life forms of organization and struggle, reflecting on how they can get involved with others in the most pressing problems of their time. Our main goals will be: 1) to explore environmental discourses in the Global North and Global South by looking at their differences and similarities as expressed in theoretical and journalistic sources; and 2) to identify how those discourses shape struggles and victories on the ground, and vice versa, by looking at a set of case studies from Latin America and the United States. We will compare interpretations and solutions to the crisis offered by Global North and Global South frameworks of thought (both Western and non-Western). Students will reflect on dominant vs. alternative solutions to the crisis, on how their education can be put in the service of the current manifold crisis, and on the importance of a vision of the crisis across borders.